ALL ABOUT ME
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| ALL ABOUT ME |
| I often describe myself as a Japanese soul, stuffed into the body of a Canadian, living in Hong Kong. A bit of a mess perhaps, but it seems to be a good combination for seeing the world with open eyes. Since the artistic community has yet to recognize the merits of stick figures, I express my art by means of camera and film. I admit it, I said the f-word. Though I do use some digital capture, for my current artistic purposes, I find film is still the way to go. I favour the square, medium format of Hasselblad and the ultimate street photography tool, a Leica M. Pardon the pun, but, the focus of my work tends toward street, travel and portrait photography. In my street photography, I try to capture people as naturally as possible, particularly the interactions they have with others and their surroundings. In my more structured portraits too, I try to make and capture the connection with the person I'm photographing. I have several ongoing projects, but the one that is of greatest importance to me began over 10 years ago when I was living in Japan: photographing traditional Japanese swordsmith, Takami Kuniichi. I dont' really have a deeply philosophical reason for photographing the things I do. I photograph whomever and whatever catches my interest and try to do so in a way that makes the viewer stop and take notice. Click the "blog" link for more of my work at my blog, "Perogies, Sushi and Bubble tea". |