Selected Awards &. Exhibitions
Interviews & Publications
I primarily use three film cameras: a hand-built Phillips 8x16” ultra-large-format view camera, a 4x5” field view camera, and a medium-format Hasselblad. I work with only the available light and no distortion filters or digital altering. Images are printed by me in a traditional wet darkroom.I grew up on a farm in central Pennsylvania and moved to California after getting a degree in aerospace engineering. Unfortunately that’s also when I discovered I’d rather be a photographer than a rocket scientist. I spent the next 6 years photographing on the side before resigning in 1992 to become a full-time photographer. I lived and photographed near Yosemite for 4 years before moving to a rural Pennsylvania farm where I live with my family and many rescued animalsCenter Forward Exhibition, Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, Colorado, 2022Rust Belt Biennial Exhibition, Sordoni Gallery, Wilkes Barre, PA 2019 Royal Photographic Society, International Photography Competition, London, England 2014 Jurors: Tim Rudman, Lewis Blackwell, Caroline Hyman, Roy RobertsonSolo exhibition, Hard Coal, Hoyt Center for the Arts, New Castle, PA 2014Selected for the New York Times Portfolio Review, NYC 2014. (Reviewers: James Estrin, NY Times; Amy Wolff, PDN; Alison Nordstrom.)Hoyt Center for the Arts, Mid-Atlantic Juried Exhibition, New Castle, PA 2013, 2007 Center for Fine Art Photography, Portraits Exhibition, 2013 Fort Collins, Colorado. Juror: Charles GuiceSlave Dwelling Project Arts Exhibit North Charleston, South Carolina. Juror: Joseph McGillFirst Prize, Photography: Art of the State, State Museum, Harrisburg, PA, 2012 Black & White Photography, Photoplace Gallery, Middlebury, VT 2011Merit Award (Landscape/Nature), Black & White Magazine, Single Image Contest 2011 Semi-finalist, Hasselblad Masters Copenhagen, Denmark 2008Yosemite Museum Gallery, Yosemite, California Fall 1998Grand Prize, Natural World Photography Competition, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1994Through the Lens of Compassion at JP Farm Animal SanctuaryOne of my illuminated slave dwelling photographs was included in the newly published 2nd edition of Jill Enfield’s classic Guide to Photographic Alternative Processes: Popular Historical and Contemporary TechniquesA custom printed size of Marcie No. 1 shown in New England Home magazine The Rust Belt Biennial in Ain’t Bad: An Independent Publisher of New Photographic ArtThe Rust Belt Biennial in LenscratchShort video interview with me for the 2018 Saint Louis Art Fair’s Meet the Artists seriesWashington Post, October 2017 Narratively, December 2016Interview by Farm Sanctuary with me and other photographers who do volunteer work there including Isa Leshko, Derek Goodwin, Aaron Rosapepe, Vee Hertel, and Lesley Marino.