I have used a camera as a means to write my diary for as long as i can remember. However it was during my 3 year service in the military that i realized it had a deeper purpose- it was my way of making sense of the world.
Soon after the army i set on a 6 month backpacking trip across the far east and bought my first Canon EOS5 35mm; the Mamiya Medium Format joined a few years later and are with me wherever i go. (still stuck on slide film)
Landing in NY in '99, i switched my major at Columbia University from Economics to a Visual Arts and Philosophy double major. have been shooting and writing in NYC ever since.
During my travels it became clear how widely different ways of life and means of happiness can there be across different paths we choose and convictions we subscribe to- that notion led to my book 'Theory of Wants', subsequently published by Damiani in '08.
In my recent work, i have been attempting to find more subtle universal common denominators- detached from a specific time and place, and flirting with freedom, longing, and mostly the complexity of 2 and 3 dimensional emotional landscapes- where someone happy must have known sadness, where someone confident shows a glimpse of awareness of their own insecurities. I like to think of it as a state of balance.
