A selection of images that have been juried into photography exhibits.
Within an hour from the capitol of Santa Fe, villages that have changed little in 100’s of years are scattered along remote roadways. Those backroads are the ones I follow. I seek out traces from New Mexico’s past.
Forever curious about history and design, I search for old structures, the stories they tell and the questions they bring forth... how many families (and their livestock during raids) were sheltered by this hacienda? who were the traveling priests attending to this remote chapel, how lonely is that abandoned chair? how often do the Hermanos gather in this Morada?
Rarely do I photograph people, I'm more interested in the marks they leave behind, like their dwellings and especially their windows which for me open up silent conversations. Considering how simple fenestration is, just a puncture for gaining air and light, the variation is thrilling. Whether obscured, transparent or reflective, windows have stories to tell. I peer through a church window seeing bibles left just so, telling me about the last Mass. Decorative curtains or sills arranged with treasures give me clues about strangers. A scratch coat left without a color coat for decades speaks to how things can change after a good intention.
I photographed the Kyoto Window series in 2010. Many traditional homes in Japan are built directly alongside the road and patterned glass is used to provide privacy. The differing textures of the windows create diffuse, abstract, pointillistic, translucent images. When printed large, the images become life-size and offer the viewer an experience similar to peering through a window.
I visited Havana in 2018, all these images were taken in Havana Vieja.
