I favor medium and large format traditional film cameras with full manual controls. 

 

Color transparency film is developed and then brought to the lab, where I oversee the entire process, from scanning to printing and mounting.  Ranging in size from 9" x 15" to 40" x 50", my prints are created on Fuji Crystal Archive photographic paper.  Images are first mounted on Archival MDF board sitting on a float to relief it from the wall, and then covered with an archival non-glare UV-protective laminate that is easily maintained.  Proven archival to last for generations, this method of mounting also precludes the need for traditional framing and fragile glass.  The result is that the viewer is not distanced but allowed to connect intimately with the work.  Keeping my editions to 50 guards collectors against market saturation and provides them with a continually fresh body of work from which to choose.

 

From my traditional wet darkroom, I hand print all of my own Black and White work in gelatin silver on fiber base photographic paper in 11" x 14" or 16" x 20" sizes.   Through the utilization of developers and toners such as sepia and gold, images appear illuminated from within.  The toning process extends the life of the print for generations.  Within extremely limited editions that are mounted, matted, glazed and framed, this process lends each piece subtle variations to give it a unique, one-of-a-kind quality.