My images are about seeing the photograph that is in front of us, rather than seeing through the camera itself or seeing in a straightforward sense.  These photographs are concerned with “looking at” versus “looking through” the photograph.  I have attempted not to make enclosing statements, rather the reverse; my aim is to promote an informed, enquiring attitude.  My intent is to have the photograph itself be seen as the picture, not what is represented in the photograph through which events and appearances are recorded.  This difference is between seeing a photograph as a picture and as concrete reality.  The most important point is that my photographs can be regarded as a self-sufficient object.  It need not have support by reference from outside.  In this regard my photographs are abstract.  Of course some pictures are more abstract than others.  These abstractions are pictures of ideas and meaning and not merely representations of concrete objects which happen to be captured by the camera.

My objective is not simply to disguise the subject matter but rather to create an interesting picture out of everyday events found in landscape. Hopefully the viewer will respond by asking what is this, what is in front of me, what do I see and how does the image itself inform my viewing of it? As opposed to the question; what is this a photograph of?  My purpose is to have these images challenge our notion of what a photograph looks like and what it tells us.