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About this Project

For the past seven years, I have been creating work that is somewhat hard to classify. On the surface, some of them may simply appear to be shows that I've produced which incorporate performance, live music and sometimes a party atmosphere. In reality, they are concepts that I've come up with that one would think to be the least commercially viable idea for any type of success or financial return. And with these "losing" or "bad ideas", my work, like every product available to man, is to convince an audience that this is something they need in their lives.

This ongoing project includes conceptual musical acts, "forgotten" celebrities, non-existent movies and unusual events.

All of these works were and continue to be collaborative pieces in which I cast performers around a central theme and go from there. The other elements including photography, copywriting, graphic design, marketing, advertising, promotion and project management are all done by myself.

The blurring of fantasy and reality is a central concept behind creating these works. The mere act of people talking about one of my made up characters gives it more life with each mention. If there is press or publicity attached to one of my projects, it begins to take on an even greater life...it takes on a new reality that goes way beyond my initial germ of an idea.

As I continue to blur fantasy and reality, my future goals for this project include blurring the line between commercial and conceptual art by introducing more products, most of which would provoke conversation regarding the wasteful nature of our society and our need to consume more than we need. And as I've done with past work, I will continue to explore the fear tactics of advertising and the psychological elements associated with consumerism. And in the end, I will convince the public that I do have something to offer that they want, that they didn't know existed.

About this Project

I have been taking Polaroid portraits for nearly twenty years and have been documenting the people of Baltimore for 6+ years. During this time, I have taken 1,000s of photos as part of this ongoing project which has resulted in two solo shows in local galleries as well as representation by Polanoir Gallery in Vienna, Austria.

My photographs document, tell stories and present questions. These photos reveal details about my friends and the people I meet. They show people the way they are and call attention to the way we can be perceived by others.

As a photographer I also shoot digital and 35mm analog film, but I have remained passionate about Polaroid. The results not only create an original one of a kind artifact, but there is also an honesty about the resulting photographs that you can only get when positioned two feet from your subject.

About this Project

Anonymous Polaroids is an on-going project about how many people used instant cameras in the past...secretly and privately in the comfort of their own bedrooms and without fear of having to drop personal and sexy film off at their local drug store or 1-Hour Photo.

About this Project

I shoot the urban landscape in the same way I approach shooting people. I look for a sense of originality and playfulness in signage and building façades. The architectural showmanship to selling a product or business has all but been erased on the American landscape. Innovation now seems to be strictly reserved for art museums and urban (re)development designed to increase property value.

This collection of photographs is part of a much larger documentation of the decline of the Pop Urban Landscape which includes defunct and obsolete businesses, the lost art of the sign and small business showmanship and advertising.

These photos were all taken with various models of the Polaroid Spectra, resulting in not just photographs, but original documents in their own right, aging and slightly discoloring over time.

About this Project

When I moved to Baltimore in 2002, I knew immediately that I wanted to start a photographic project that would capture my first impressions of the people I knew and was beginning to meet.

In the summer of 2005, I started work on a project that I called In Your Face. It was a portrait project in which I photographed a different person for every day of the year. My focus began with the artists and musicians I was getting to know and extended to people who had a presence in the arts and entertainment community. The project also included many strangers who I would randomly meet on the street whose appearance struck me as interesting in some way.

Being a new resident of Baltimore, the project was about capturing the spirit, vitality and energy that I felt around me. It was this Baltimore vitality that I embodied in 365 portraits. The project became a photoblog which was updated daily for the entire year on the City Paper website. The entire collection of photographs then became a solo show at the G-Spot Gallery and continues to resonate with many people in the community.

This project was a huge and very rewarding success to me and has also become something of a legendary collection of images that many people have gone out of their way to call "important", "definitive" and "very Baltimore".