When he saw the first daguerreotype, the painter Paul Delaroche exclaimed, “From today, painting is dead!” And sadly, art history have proven that statement was partly was true.

When Adobe Photoshop was unleashed, many said photography was dead. Not true! In the digital age, photography became pure art, instead of documentary.

The camera is a tool, as the computer is a tool, as the paintbrush is a tool.

As an artist, what I am after is the image.

Most of my simple photographs are old-school, taken with an old beat-up Canon AE-1 from the 1970’s. One stark clip-on light with a 100 watt bulb against a black bed sheet served as a studio. I developed my negatives and prints in a darkroom by hand. With a nod to the new school, I used Photoshop to enhance the images.