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As many of you know, my love of printmaking has played a huge part in my approach to photography. Over the last 5 years, I have been lucky and honored to study with some of the best photographic printmakers—George Tice for silver and platinum; Tyler Boley for pigment; and Paul Taylor for photogravure. During my [...]

I attended the annual AIPAD (Association of International Photography Art Dealers) art fair last week. The first time I attended the fair was in 1995 when I was first discovering photography. This fair came at a time when I’m trying to find my place in photography. Overall, the fair was a good one, especially in [...]

“How good to stop and look out upon eternity a while…” —Charles Reznikoff I am so excited to introduce a new limited edition handmade portfolio of prints, This is Your Land. The portfolio presents a series of 10 images taken in rural northeastern Texas in early 2012. I feel strongly that these are some of [...]

I am delighted to introduce Pictures, a new series of photographs made during a year-long collaboration with artist Richard Benari. From the project statement:“Rejecting the current trend toward the accidental in photographic abstraction, this work reasserts the photographer’s eye. Authority and indexicality are explored through the artists’s rendering of abstraction in the recognizable, the everyday. [...]

Published by Lumiere Press in 2011. Essay by Michael Torosian. Introduction by Howard Greenberg. Edition of 250. Sometimes it takes nearly a century for photographs to be shared with the world, even ones made by one of the most influential photographers in the history of the medium. That was the case for some of Edward [...]

I’ve finally realized why I love photography. Last week, I went to see a show of platinum/palladium prints by one of the living masters, George Tice.  I met George in 2005 when I took a workshop with him at what was the Maine Photographic Workshops.  I can say emphatically that he is one of the [...]

Last month I spent a week in Daytona Beach, Florida—teaching, giving an artist talk, attending an opening and soaking in dialog with other artists and curators about photography. After all the events were over, I spent an afternoon participating in an extended conversation sitting around a large table between myself, three other artists and two [...]

Both with a heavy heart and excitement, I want to let you all know that I’ve decided to leave Portland and move back to the east coast.  October will mark my fourth year in Oregon, and while my time here has been incredibly nurturing and productive, the pull of my family and of the landscape [...]

Over the last 2 years, I’ve unintentionally become an active collaborator.  It started with the publication of my first book and grew from there.  I didn’t know, when I started working with John DeMerritt and Inge Bruggeman on Displaced, that the experience would lead to working with other writers, letterpress printers, printmakers, bookbinders and most [...]

When I teach workshops on self publishing, I usually start by listing the benefits of interpreting images into book form—the ability to create a three-dimensional art object, the potential for an expanded audience, the financial rewards and challenges, etc.  Lately, I’ve thought a great deal about another major advantage, one that has taken years to [...]