"Portugal"/1995 10"x8"

Straight, uncontrived, photography is wedded to its subject matter as no other art form. Even so, a photographers sensibility is not wholly excluded from his work. Choice of subject, positioning of the camera, the treatment of the ambient light and of the tones and colors and textures playing on a subject -- not to mention a host of technical considerations - are factors each photographer handles differently. But every so often a photographer surpasses himself and manages to trump the world of appearances and a particular image conveys something of the worlds mystery; and the photographer, in setting out to meet the not myself, ends up encountering something of himself in the same image. Exhibition List: 'In Observance', solo show Galerie Chacun à Son Goût, Davies Medical Center, San Francisco. January 3 - February 13, 1993. Writing with Light, group show Marathon Plaza, San Francisco September 24 - December 1, 1993 'Day of the Dead', solo show Sala Inti Raymi, The Mission Cultural Center, San Francisco February 16 - March 18, 1994 'Ars Longa Vita Brevis: IV - Time, Mortality, Melancholy', group show Weir Gallery, Berkeley October 14 - November 18, 1994 Ho Chi Minh City Photographic Association Gallery, group show Vietnam July 13 - July 23, 1996 'Death and the Maidens', solo show South Park Photographics, San Francisco October 31 - November 28, 1997 'Casa de Espantos' (House of Ghosts), group show SOMARTS, San Francisco October 14 - November 2, 1999 'Brides of Death' (Day of the Dead exhibit), Solo Show Civic Center Main Library, San Francisco (Art & Music Center, 4th Floor) October 31 - November 30, 2000 TAO AWE, Group Show Canessa Gallery, San Francisco April 2 - April 27, 2001 'Ardency Gallery Presents 12', Group Show Ardency Gallery, Oakland December 3 - 28, 2002 'A Second Look', Solo Show Civic Center Main Library, San Francisco January 11 - March 7, 2003