Large-format photography has the unique characteristic of being able to present a viewer with the most elaborate visual evidence.  Careful control of the elements of a picture, though entirely fabricated, can allow tensions, contradictions, even incredible conditions to exist coincidentally.  To affect perception so convincingly as to be able to create "realities", impossible though they may be is one of the great powers of photography as a medium.

One could say there are two types of photography: Additive and Subtractive. The latter consisting of a process of elimination: the photographer goes looking for pictures and selects places and moments.

The other kind, Additive, is a process very similar to drawing or painting... even sculpting. The studio is a blank canvas or paper. Anything that finds its way into the picture was purposefully added. The work you see in the gallery is produced in the Additive way.

All images in the gallery are "one-shots". In other words, what was in front of the lens is what you see in the final print. There is no manipulation after the film is exposed.

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