This body of work focuses on the idea of how light changes when it interacts with water. I am working with longer exposures so that the image will have more time to change in some form. I am working with 35mm film and printing the images on 16x20 inch paper. The prints are either single negative exposure or double negative exposures. The purpose of this is to allow the image to take on a greater feeling of abstraction.
The negatives in themselves are images of the water and the light from the surrounding areas being reflected back on the water. The quality of the light begins to change the further away from the light source the reflection gets. The light begins to spread out and break up more, as opposed to when the focus is on the water that is closer to the light source which allows it to be more clear and precise. The movement of the water also affects the images.
For this body of work I am working with larger images and at night. I am also working with manmade light as opposed to natural light. It is interesting to see how the longer exposures and the larger prints make changes to the feel of the image. Working in a less intimate way is a change for me as well. Normally with my photographs, you have to get up close to see everything that is going on in the image. This time I want to viewer to have to stand back to really see everything at once.
By doing this series I am hoping that it will change how I make some of my work in the future. I have a strong connection to water and in particular the beach. It will be a growing experience to work with a different form of water, urban water in this case. By using a different time of day and working with longer exposures I am also hoping to get a different feel from the water and not have it be such an obvious object in the image.
Also, light is such an important concept with photography. To take the idea of natural light out of the equation will really make the man made light in my images the focus of the photographs.
There are many different aspects to this body of work that I did not account for initially that have now made it that much more interesting. The exposure time in itself was something that had to be continually experimented with until I got to the point where I found exactly what would work the best for my images , which is either 30 seconds or 45 seconds depending on how much external light there was around the camera. I have found also that the images themselves are something entirely different than what I initially thought that they would be. The work went from being about light to being more about a study of color and taking some pretty disgusting bodies of water and enhancing the beauty that is rarely seen in them.
The work overall is something even more than I expected it to be, there is such a beauty in the expansion of the light and then how some of the shadows from the surrounding environments make the images so vibrant. The final product will have the images framed in a plain black frame without any matting. I do not want anything to subtract from or divert the eye from the photograph.

A series of photographs that document three different train stations in New Jersey. It is the same aspect of three different train stations. It was a documentation on affluence of each location. Film negatives that were color printed in the color darkroom.

Cyanotype prints made from digital negatives that are all images of the ocean and the sun shinning off of the water. It was an experiment on how the image would change being printed in this fashion as well as seeing how the emotional reaction would change based on the fact that everything was a shade of blue apposed to it being the correct coloring all around.

This is a series about taking a moment to go close to the objects that brings comfort to me personally. The series is all contact black and white prints from paper negatives. I wanted the images to have a softness to them that I could not accomplish or see in any other form than from a paper negative. Each photograph is a close up of an object or article of clothing that brings me comfort. Some of the images are more abstract than others but together they all work. Having taken the time to do this series has shown me how much my comfort is centered on textures, from either blankets or clothing, or stuff animals of some kind. This series allowed me to step back and have fun with photography but also gave me a chance to learn a little more about myself and what comfort means to me.

This series is a work about society and the processes of documenting what happens when people let things crumble and build new this right around it. I personally think that the old character that is in older building and houses are very important and interesting. So driving around the Maryland area I documented abandon building and what was across the street or next to those buildings.

This series is about farmland in New Jersey. For the most part in Northern NJ and how the landscape changes and what is unique to each individual farm. I plan on further this series in the future and bringing in farms that have animals and also farms from other states. These images are from film negatives that were scanned and then printed digitally.

A series of diptychs that show water in two different locations, one is Northern New Jersey and the other in Maryland. Each location is run by the state and it was interesting to see how the photographs matched up with one another. All photographs were taken on film then scanned and printed digitally.

This is a series of photographs that are digitally shot and printed. This series is about what it means to change locations and what it means to grow up. As I had lived in the same town my entire life, when I moved from my home town to Maryland I saw the difference in the way the neighborhoods and homes are constructed. This series is an exploration on these differences. The first image being my childhood home and then going to the city of Columbia Maryland and shooting the planned communities that I had never really experienced growing up.