Photography

Photography is one way I see. It helps me to organize the world into what I want to remember and what I do not. It is a selective eye that often has greater acuity than my own.

Hudson New York

Hudson, New York is a small town in upstate New York that once boasted many factories in the 19th century. Now it is is home to many antique shops and has become a destination for day trippers from all over the Hudson Valley. These photographs form a corpus of how I see this town that I have been visiting since I was a teen. I do not attempt to document the changes that have been happening to the tow, but to find the uniqueness in its atmosphere.

Hudson New York Series - No.1 - Coming Storm

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Hudson New York Series - No.2 - Meridian Forest

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Hudson New York Series - No. 8 - Energy Corner

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Hudson New York Series - No.1 - Coming Storm

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Feast of Seven Fishes

After my mother remarried after my father's death, Frank, my new Italian national step-father initiated the tradition of The Feast of Seven Fishes into our Christmas Eve traditions.

Feast of Seven Fishes Series - No. 1 - Enter

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Feast of Seven Fishes Series - No. 3 - Mom and Frank Christmas Eve

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Feast of Seven Fishes Series - No. 14 - Nicole Waiting

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Feast of Seven Fishes Series - No. 1 - Enter

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Polaroid Series

At the age of eleven, I received a polaroid camera. This gift changed the way I took photographs, because of the quick developing of the image brought nearly instant results. I have returned to these image from that time in my artistic progression to revisit and reaccess them. As a mature artist, I find that I am drawn to the surface changes that has occurred to the images over time. The noise, tape residue, graininess and color changes that have become a part of their presence and history.