"Whoever wants to know something about me - as an artist which alone is significant - they should look attentively at my pictures and there seek to recognise what I am and what I want."

-Gustav Klimt

"Quality doesn't mean deep blacks and whatever tonal range. That's not quality, that's a kind of quality. The pictures of Robert Frank might strike someone as being sloppy - the tone range isn't right and things like that - but they're far superior to the pictures of Ansel Adams with regard to quality, because the quality of Ansel Adams, if I may say so, is essentially the quality of a postcard. But the quality of Robert Frank is a quality that has something to do with what he's doing, what his mind is. It's not balancing out the sky to the sand and so forth. It's got to do with intention." (Elliott Erwitt)

Art Influences:

Robert Frank

Michael Stipe

Oscar Wilde

John Baldessari

I'm currently pursuing a MFA in Photography through the Academy of Art, San Francisco.

I already have a degree in English Literature & Philosophy from Mount Holyoke College.

My equipment

Medium Format

Hasselblad 500 cm

Carl Zeiss Planar T* 80mm f/2.8 Lens

Digital Camera Bodies:

Canon EOS 5D Mark II

Canon EOS 450D aka EOS Digital Rebel XSi

Canon EOS 300D aka EOS Digital Rebel

Lenses:

Canon EF 70-200mm f2.8L IS (ultrasonic)

Canon EF 24-105mm f4L IS (ultrasonic)

Canon Macro EF 100mm f2.8 (ultrasonic)

Canon EF 50mm f1.4 (ultrasonic)

Canon EF 75-300mm F4-5.6 IS (ultrasonic)

Canon EF-S 18-55mm f3.5-5.6 IS

Canon EF 28-90mm F4-5.6 (ultrasonic)

Point & Shoot:

FujiFilm Finepix A900

35 mm Film Body:

Canon EOS Elan 7E

Other Cameras:

Polaroid 600