I have never had an easy time answering the questions, “What do you photograph?” “What kind of pictures do you make?” There is a glib answer that is actually sort of true – the subject is time, space and the quality of light.
The photographs I consider most satisfying often seem to be an amalgam of objective description and subjective experience that engages both mind and sense and reminds one of the wonder of seeing and being in the world.
The photographs are mostly from an exhibition entitled “Soft Stones and Hard Culture” shown in Lima,Peru in October, 2005 at the Festival Internacional de Fotografia “Miraphoto.”
The exhibition was an attempt to understand my thoughts and feelings about the pictures made from my rooftop in lower Manhattan on September 11, 2001 in the context of pictures made the previous month of ruins and artifacts of destroyed civilizations in Peru, and pictures I made the following summer of the manifest illustration of ideas about evolution in the Galapagos Islands. Photographs from Las Vegas, Budapest and New York are also included.
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