Additional Projects

Journey West Exhibit

2001 - 2011

Moving to Arizona in December 2001 to the small former copper mining town of Ajo, about 40 miles from the Mexico border, I started photographing the local landscape and infrastructure which was to become a three part series titled Journey West Exhibit. The three sections were broken down into travels between Ajo to Tucson, Tucson to Phoenix and finally Phoenix to Ajo; each city is approximately 110 miles from the other. All of this work was shot with film using a medium-format Pentax. The first section, Ajo to Tucson was first presented…

Star of Tom

Month of December 2015

It was Thanksgiving 2015 when I realized I wasn’t going anywhere during the month of December, so it seemed as good as time as any to finally create a series of photographs of a favorite vintage holiday decoration I have owned since 1999, one which was occasionally hauled up to the roof for seasonal cheer. But this time, giving great thought to this piece of DIY homemade charm, I started to think about the indecipherable numeric codes and letters printed on foil-strips affixed to the star; could this be…

The Boneyard

October 25 and 26, 2010

On October 25, 2010 I was given necessary access to Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson, Arizona to photograph what is commonly referred to as “the Boneyard”: a final resting place for decommissioned government and commercial aircraft from all around the world. While still shooting with film, I was allowed to record this sober testament as a part of our national defense and infrastructure that is not easily put into words…

Fair Thrills!

2006 - 2008

Over the course of a few years in the mid-2000’s at a time when I was experimenting with color film, small-scale carnivals, amusement parks and state fairs became an ideal setting for photographing vivid and saturated scenes of escapism. Accentuating this surreal setting included using less than ideal color filters: if you shoot with a medium green filter over your lens, things are going to look strange. It’s not that I actually abused my camera, but there were certainly some rides I could have used better judgment in not taking out of the case and could have been more gentle when advancing the film…

Bluest Skies

January 21 - 28, 2008

I was born in Kansas but spent my youth in Seattle: from eight months old until the age of 22 I was firmly entrenched into the state of Washington and it’s reliably overcast skies which made the sunny days all the more spectacular. The family relocated briefly to Phoenix from 1964 - 1967 but Dad was lured back by Boeing and being eight years old I didn’t have much say in the matter. Fourteen years later I left my studies at the University of Washington and headed down to Southern California in 1981.