Bio

Rick’s life behind the camera started in the late 1970s when he began experimenting with a newly acquired Canon AE-1. He experimented with multiple themes, but more particularly as a journalism major, wanted to concentrate on news and street photography. Following his graduation from what was then Ryerson Polytechnical Institute, Rick became a reporter, working at a small daily in Brandon, Manitoba. He moved back to his home province of Ontario in 1983 where he worked as a reporter and editor at the St. Catharines Standard. Following his photographic muse, Rick continued to shoot pictures and developed his printing techniques in homemade darkrooms. Finally in 1993, Rick returned to school full-time to study photography. Once he graduated from the two-year program at Humber College, he worked briefly as a photojournalist, combining his newly found skills as a shooter with those he already had as a writer and editor. Then the Internet came calling. In early 1997 Rick joined the fledgling staff of America Online as it was getting underway in Canada. Over the net 24 years Rick held various leadership roles in new media working for such organizations as Quebecor Media, the CBC and finally Microsoft Canada where he eventually led the Canadian and US editorial teams for MSN. Again, during that entire time Rick continued to take pictures. Always a disciple of essentialism, it was a trip to Marfa, Texas a few years ago where he saw the minimalist works of Donald Judd, that cemented his conviction to replicate that style in his own work. Rick has participated in various exhibitions including Contact in Toronto and group shows in Portland, Minneapolis, Athens, Spain and Glasgow, amongst others.