When I entered the darkroom for the first time in 1987, the physical world fell away and I knew that I had found my vocation. While in school, I had studied architecture and electrical engineering, as well as art history, and I quickly understood that photography perfectly combined both art and science. 

My work has evolved as I have explored how photography reveals and expands our ways of perceiving reality. I am always investigating the potential of a photograph beyond the role of storytelling, beyond cataloging, even beyond capturing. 

The purpose of my photography, whether the images are representational or abstract, is to help us see the invisible. My photographs expose trajectories of light before a recognizable image is formed. They exist in the space where light, space, and our perceptions are in flux. 

In Concrete Perspective, I explored active construction sites throughout South Florida, including a stadium, a parking garage, and various highway overpasses. Such structures are a tribute to a collective intelligence, and my photographs show the beauty of what is taken for granted in contemporary urban life. Concrete Perspective analyzes the relationship between man and construction, construction and environment, and our emotional response to the constructed. As the images are distilled to their purest geometric forms, they invite viewers to inhabit illusions that are, in fact, familiar places.

In Traces of Perception, I used the current state of photography to examine fast-paced experiences. I created a single artwork composed of 100 unique images captured using an iPhone. This series investigates scientific phenomena, revealing processes that occur, but are not yet visible; as if the camera captured the world faster than it is able to materialize. Perception is a mere trace, a fleeting moment that we deconstruct and reconstruct as we fabricate memories. What we see is secondary to what we understand. These images reveal what surrounds us already: the constantly relative interplay between light and space.

My current work-in-progress, Architectures of Light, brings my exploration of photographic processes full circle. In order to return to the science of photography, I have left the iPhone behind and now use a Nikon D850. I am still exploring architectural space, as I did in Concrete Perspective, but through my own constructions. In this series, I am capturing photographs of abstract spaces to create an imaginary architecture that reveals how we perceive space. I am building translucent structures (made from crystal and acrylic) that create reflections of the clouds, the sky outside, and of each other. Often incorporated are mirrors and planes that refract and reflect the light to create dynamic spaces that are very much alive and beautifully poetic. Architectures of Light shows the potential of photography to investigate how we perceive the world around us. Photography goes beyond the limits of language to offer us a new epistemology for contemporary times.