1993-2001 | Gallery A

 intentional study of the history of photography and the lives and works of specific photographers. Nonetheless, I can say in retrospect, I was heavily influenced by the work of Roy DeCarava, Herb Ritts, Sally Mann, and Pierre Verger. These were photographers, I would later learn, whose work I had pulled from magazines, purchased on postcards, browsed in photo books and bookstores, and seen in other settings. When I look at the work I was creating, largely intuitively at this point, yet still guided by my informal study of photographic principles, I see the work of these and other artists reflected in my efforts. I was chasing after the light and the feeling that I got from their photographs. I was searching for the texture and the magic that I felt while looking at them. I wanted nothing more than to feel the same way when I looked at my own work.