I work with 35mm film and natural light, mostly in the early hours before the city remembers itself. Portraits, interiors, and the long quiet of gardens in winter.
For the past eleven years I have been making pictures in two cities I love and one I am still learning.
My work begins at 4:50 in the morning, usually with a thermos of barley tea, and ends when the light turns hard. I shoot on Kodak Portra 400 and a Leica M6 that was given to me by a friend leaving for Singapore. The camera is older than I am and slightly out of alignment on the rangefinder, which I have come to think of as its way of signing each frame.
I take on a small number of commissions each year — mostly portraits, occasionally a quiet wedding, rarely an editorial. If you would like to work together, please write. I answer all letters, though sometimes it takes me a few days.
Made in my mother's garden the morning after a typhoon, when the spiderwebs were heavy with water and the camellias had all fallen in one night. I shot eleven frames and kept this one. The light lasted perhaps eight minutes.
Prints available upon request. Edition of seven, signed and numbered, silver gelatin on Hahnemühle Photo Rag.