You are at a restaurant and someone takes out their phone and starts taking pictures. It’s annoying, right? That person … that’s me … but let me explain. It’s probably part attention deficits, but mostly just an innate curiosity in exploring the visual world. I have often told friends that I literally can’t stop
…I started taking iPhone pictures in 2008 which ultimately led to a rewarding creative journey over the past decade. In 2013, I created a small book, Found, to summarize my experience, learn from my experiments, and share the zaniness and joy of creating images with my iPhone. Little did I understand at the time, but I finished the book at the same time my body was undergoing significant physical change and a forthcoming period of darkness and pain. During that time,
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30 years later and I still remember an exchange I had with a student in a professional workshop at the Rochester Institute of Technology focused on digital photography. The student worked at a national trade magazine and I remember telling her that she needed to play with the tools to learn. Those were the days of Adobe Photoshop Version 1 and we were all experimenting and pushing all the tools to their limits. The student shot me a look
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