I photograph, knit, draw and study the Japanese way of tea. Each of these practices and my degree in philosophy informs my art making, which includes an expertise in architectural photography. I’m obsessed with process, documentation and gestures.
Early in my career, I honed techniques in photo editing at Magnum Photos and Newsweek and in reporting/writing at the magazine and a myriad of other publications.
Since the mid-'90s, I have used my skills to document cultures in built environments and call this method archi-ethnography.
My approach breaks habits of one-point perspectives, literally and figuratively, and relies on my interpretation of the interplay of ambient light, design and movement. I seek angles that explore planar vantage points that reveal the true dynamic of people interacting with each other and the unseen energies of spaces and places.
Like with all of my practices, serendipity leads the narrative. My attunement to this rigor of chance relies on a daily practice of meditation, movement and being liminal.
Each project is unique, providing its own set of rules. I champion the one-off.
In May 2009, the Art Institute of Chicago opened the Modern Wing, designed by Renzo Piano. Read reviews in The New York Times by Nicolai Ouroussof on the architecture and Roberta Smith on the art as well as a walk through with Joe Rosa, the AIC art and architecture curator, in Interior Design magazine. Access accompanying slideshows of my photographs for The NYT architecture review, art review and Interior Design.
Commissioned by The New York Times and Interior Design magazine.
