Bio

I've been photographing people, places and things for more than three decades. Canadian born, I arrived in Hong Kong by way of Japan. While I’m no longer residing in The Land of the Rising Sun, I continue to have deep connections to that culture that instilled in me a sensitively for form and detail which I hope is apparent in all my work. I began photography in the age of film and continue to shoot my personal work with a variety of analogue cameras. I don't really have a deeply philosophical reason for photographing the things I do. I photograph whomever and whatever catches my interest and try to do so in a way that makes the viewer stop and take notice. My photography has greatly influenced the way I look at the world around me and the objects in it, even when I'm not photographing them. In my street and travel photography, I try to capture people as naturally as possible, looking for the interactions they have with others and their surroundings. Even in my more structured portraits, I try to capture the connection I'm creating with the person I'm photographing. I have several ongoing projects, but the one that is of greatest importance to me began over 25 years ago when I was living in Japan: photographing traditional Japanese swordsmith, Takami Kuniichi.