moods of my pool chairs is a personal project shot solely on film from the last or 2nd to last frames on each roll or pack of instant film. The film stock and format are varied and depict a 6 year span, anytime between the hours of 9am - 5pm, living in a San Diego house with a backyard pool.

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“It’s a little known fact that when shooting 35mm film, I almost never shoot the final frame of whomever or wherever I shot the previous frames on the roll. Not that I’m saving it for something monumental or thoughtful, but it’s more out of a ridiculous unquantifiable fear that I’ve loaded my film wrong or the frame counter is inaccurate and that my final (and when I say final, I almost awlays mean favorite) will be non-existent, damaged, or in some other fashion unable to be developed. So, I basically count 23 or 35 as my final frame and blow whatever remains on something stupid at home.

That ‘something stupid’ has now turned into a personal project that is somehow growing on me dearly. It’s one of those long term project type of things. Rarely are they planned out in advance, they last until you’re done with them, or the chairs break, or you move.”

rolleiworld. a random sampling of some of my favorite images from my favorite camera.

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“I picked up my first rolleiflex at a film swap in Long Beach, CA. I peered into the waist level viewfinder and suddenly believed that magic was real. Forking over the cash for such an experience was a no-brainer.

Full disclosure…I had no idea how to use such a contraption, but, I I knew that if it could sweep me off my feet with one glimpse, I was determined to get to know it better.

The first image in this collection is the very first frame I ever shot with this camera: my daughter, Norah, first thing in the morning, at our little cabin in the woods.”

trains to tokyo a short series documenting two weeks of transportation while touring Japan.

feb/march 2023

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“Truth is, there is so much I love about traveling, but what I find myself being most enchanted by and shoot most frequently is the travel itself. The subways and trains and bikes and buses and ferries. The constant shifting of people and light and geometry. This intermingling of voyeur and participant. The engagement of a world that never seems to stop moving.”