“The purpose of art is to impart the sensation of things as they are perceived and not as they are known. The technique of art is to make objects ‘unfamiliar,’ to make forms difficult, to increase the difficulty and length of perception because the process of perception is an aesthetic end in itself and must be prolonged.” — Victor Shklovsky, Art as Technique
—All of the photographs on my site were shot with analog film cameras and all of the images are scanned from darkroom prints made by my own hand (with the exception of the Fuji Instax pictures from the Puking Rainbows Past and Future project).
I grew up in Los Angeles a movie kid going to the cinema weekly. I also loved comic books, which I would read voraciously. I spent my twenties and much of my thirties on the road as a traveler, aspiring to write fiction. My novels were never published but along the way I discovered the nuance and pleasure of telling stories with photographs.
I’ve had four photo books published including Sunlanders (Bemojake, 2016), Middle Life Notes (Neutral Colors, 2019), Amoeba (Neutral Colors, 2021), and The Sniper Paused So He Could Wipe His Brow (The M Editions & IBASHO, 2021). My prints are represented by IBASHO Gallery in Antwerp. I live in Kyoto, Japan, with my wife, Ariko, son, Tennbo, and Kai Ken, Monk.
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Self-portrait shot with a Fuji Instax, double-exposed with a Chips Ahoy! cookies ad from a 1960s LIFE Magazine, circa summer, 2022