Take 2

"Take 2"

My photographs are observations of life’s everyday events. Incorporating a sense of timelessness, a strong design element, dramatic light, and a deadpan point of view & compositional style, I photograph life's fleeting moments. I typically don’t “go out to photograph”, I take pictures as I navigate my way through life; traveling with my family, visiting friends, going for a walk, taking the bus to work, riding the metro/train, road trips in the car, etc., making pictures wherever life happens to bring me.

While I was working at Apple on the iPhone Camera, I began to explore how to creatively use a mobile phone camera. I wanted to see not only what was possible from a technical perspective, but to use the product I was working on, on an on-going and regular basis, to see what was possible from a creative perspective. So, I spent most of 2015 and 2016 photographing with my iPhone.

Early on, when I began reviewing my work, I found that these pictures worked well as multiple image pieces; diptychs, triptychs, and sometimes 4 and 5 panel image pieces. The title of the series, “Take 2”, refers not only to the use of multiple images in a single piece (i.e. the diptych) but to taking more than one photo at a given time and place, and also to the term as it is used in film production; “take 2” as in a second, different or alternate take. In this case the "alternate take" being the use of a mobile phone camera in lieu of the traditional stand-alone camera.