I want to return to photography's routes - showing it as a physcial process. The digital age has enabled a certain ease when it comes to producing images, where cheap camera phones and DSLR's capture high quality images.  Editing softwares render these images in various ways, and advanced printing technology can produce pristine, sharp prints in different sizes and types of paper. Forget all that - I want to be intentional with each photograph I take and each print I make. Everything is deliberate and calculated while nothing is edited, nor cropped. With analog being the medium of this body of work - physically holding a print that was fabricated from scratch is truly rewarding.

Telephone wires and cables connected to every house, along every street have, in many people’s eyes, cluttered the natural landscape. Looking for beauty and different forms in something that has become mundane in today’s world, I find that the graphic qualities of these tangled and sporadic wires are striking. Emphasizing abstraction, negative space, and various forms, I want to confuse the viewer enough to make them look, rather than merely see my photographs.

The following images are digital photographs of Silver Gelatin prints that were exhibited in the Studio Thesis Exhibition at the Bates College Museum of Arts in April, 2017. The final product of a full academic year working towards a cohesive body of work, from start to finish, these images were self-developed, printed, matted and framed. Each image was photographed on location, in and around the cities of Lewiston and Auburn, Maine.