“Nude” Portland, Oregon, 2001

“Nude” Portland, 2001

“Grande Arche de La Defence” Paris, 2001

“Grande Arche de La Defence " Paris, 2001

When people ask me, I say that I am an artist. Now that’s a very presumptuous thing to say, but it eliminates the next question, which is: do you do weddings? No, I don’t do weddings, and it’s not up to me to declare myself an artist, but I do struggle to that end.

I take photographs of people and who they are… usually over a long period of time. And I take photographs of things that people create…usually without people in the image. I really don’t know if that has any cosmic meaning or not, but that’s what I do. Oh, I take the odd landscape/seascape from time to time, and then there were those donkeys in Paris, but who people are and what they do is what drives me.

 

“Aideen” Villefranche-sur-Mer, 2005

“Aideen” Villefranche-sur-Mer, 2005

Photographing people is such a dynamic process. One day, several years ago, I realized that I was holding a six-pound camera along with a fifteen-pound tripod in order to capture a candid image of a person. At that moment it dawned on me that it would be a lot easier if I took the tripod off. I did and haven’t used one since.