Black & White Photography
At eighteen I developed my fist black and white print in a darkroom with D76. A few months later I was enrolled in a full time program at New England School of Photography, located in Kenmore Sq. in Boston, MA. Learning fine art black and white photography with a large format 4X5 view camera was challenging. I studied great masters of photography as Edward Weston, Ansel Adams, Alfred Stieglitz and Dorothy Lange. They shaped my vision of what fine art black and white photography was and what I wanted to do. While over the years I have broadened my subject matter, I have never abandoned those photographic ethics that I developed as a youth. In 2005 I took the radical step of converting to digital and had to wrestle with new ethical questions that arose from the advances in technology. At the time, digital was not considered appropriate for fine art black and white photography. And yet, some of the fine art black and white photographs on this website are digital, captured and printed digitally. It is for you the viewer to decide if I have maintained that tradition of the classic masters of fine art black and white photography.
