LAVENDER PHOTOGRAPHIC
I fell under the peculiar spell of photography as a youngster. The images I saw then, in particular my father Stan’s landscape work and large-format aerial photographs, left the urge to try my own hand at capturing this magical photonic dance.
The style I strive for might best be called a celebration of the ordinary. My goal, both on assignment and in my personal work, is to communicate the impression of plain and unvarnished visual truth.
The galleries to your left house images from various periods, projects and techniques along the way:
- Stone Angels. Alt-process cemetery statuary, featured at Cannington House Gallery.
- Intimate Contacts. Silver gelatin landscapes shown at North Light Gallery.
- Portraits. A mix of processes and personalities.
- Grand Manan. Photographs made with an ancient Korona field camera in the mouth of the Bay of Fundy.
- Algonquin. Images from Canada’s most famous “WILDerness” park.
- Farmlands. Produce of a different sort from the market gardens of Holland Marsh and beyond.
- Whitby Psychiatric. Ontario’s infamous Hospital for the Insane, now demolished.
- Van Dyke Browns. Tulips rendered via the Van Dyke process for a hand-bound book.
- Transit. Some of the more visually interesting ways we transport ourselves.
- Retired Fighters. An ongoing tribute to Canadian fighter aircraft, now sadly just planes on poles.
- Heritage Homes. Historical properties in Toronto.
- Cloaked. Images from the Burlapped Topiary folio.
- Et Al. A miscellany of hard-to-categorize work.
The remaining menu items link to technical details, artists and other sources of inspiration, and a few words about the photographer and author of this pictorial salmagundi.