All photographs on this site were taken with a homemade pinhole camera - in this case a small suspicious-looking cardboard box wrapped in black plastic and electrical tape. The camera is designed to hold 120 mm film and has a focal length of 30mm and an aperture of roughly f120.

My interest in pinhole photography began in 1988 when a friend gave me a camera he'd made for a class he was teaching. My background is in drawing and painting and I found that pinhole images had a painterly quality and the immediacy of drawings; I was hooked.

Over the years I've found myself pointing the camera at landscapes, people, and architecture. But the ideas I've come back to again and again have to do with relationships and the tension between order and chaos. Sometimes I find this tension in the repetition of forms (often trees). Sometimes it's in the juxtaposition of human-made objects (often bridges) with nature. And sometimes the tension is just between my formal aesthetic and the messy process of pinhole photography - I usually have no idea what the final image is going to look like. But whatever the tension, there's always a relationship and dialogue, and in that dialogue I find beauty, and a reflection of our relationship with the larger world.