About / CV

I AM AN ARTIST, AUTHOR AND EDUCATOR. 

My artwork studies relationships between humankind and the natural world. I am awed by nature’s beauty, its cycles and inherent perfection, and I am attuned to the ways in which it communicates how we might more fully live, and live in balance with it. I am also dismayed at how far removed humankind has become from nature, and the ramifications not only for the planet but for ourselves. My artwork references ecological concerns poetically, and simultaneously documents and serves as a meditation on our relationship with the more-than-human world.

I choose to create using photographic media because its physical makeup mirrors nature itself— sensitivity to light, energy and time, metallic and chemical interactions, viability and expiration—and its ability to simultaneously record and infer. I utilize the entire range of photographic media from historic to digital; media choices underscore or mirror the concepts in each body of work. 

My work is internationally exhibited, held in distinguished corporate and private collections, and has received fellowship and award recognition. I license images and produce commission artwork. I am represented by Michael Warren Contemporary in Denver. I authored the textbook, The Elements of Photography: Understanding and Creating Sophisticated Images, (Focal Press). I lecture and offer workshops on its themes surrounding photographic language. I've been Contributor-at-Large for American Photo Magazine, and write critical essays on photography. I have taught photography at institutions including the University of Dayton, University of Michigan, Antioch College, and Anderson Ranch Arts Center.

My perspectives are influenced by nature writers, a unique multi-cultural heritage, Buddhist philosophy, and a lifetime living in nature. Summers spent living on a subsistence farm in Appalachia instilled a deep connection with the natural world from a very early age. I have lived in Colorado’s Front Range mountains for 20 years, though my heart (and my cabin) remains in the Blue Ridge. The neighbors I most enjoy are elk, deer, fox, coyotes, bears and mountain lions. I live in nature, and I take forest stewardship seriously. In my off-time I hike and tend to my forest homes by building stone walls, remove trees for bark beetle fire mitigation, and restoring cultivated lands to their native state. 

Collections Include: Center for Fine Art Photography, CO; James Crown Collection, Chicago; Kaiser Permanente, CO; UDECX Corp, OH; Reynolds Collection, OH; Ann Arbor Development Authority, MI; Claritas Corp, FL; Smithsonian Museum, DC; Archdiocese of Prague, Czech Republic, and numerous private collections

Gallery Representation: Michael Warren Contemporary