Artist Statement
Anton Chekhov wrote of his dueling careers: “Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I tire of one, I spend the night with the other.” A similar arrangement enables my practices of surgery and photography. By examining what's at risk of being forgotten by a culture, my photographic work seeks to call attention to the seriousness of certain small things and the emptiness of some large ones.
The pictures, often concerned with the vernacular, reside somewhere between photographic fact and lyricism. On occasion they are successful, and when I sense they are not - then I return to surgery, “my lawful wife,” where time treating my patients restores some faith that a return to the street will yield new worthy pictures.