My philosophy on printing is very simple: I take the photographs, I make the prints.
If you purchase a Georgia O’Keefe painting, your expectation is that O’Keefe painted it. If you go to a Stones concert, you expect to see the Rolling Stones, not a cover band that looks like them. If you buy a novel, you expect the author whose name is on the cover wrote it.
Why should fine art photography be any different?
If you are collecting my work, you are getting my work, no one else’s. A print signed by me is a print made by me, on my printer, not a lab print by a nameless technician working somewhere else, “under my direct supervision”.
I believe my job is to be the artist, not a supervisor. Printing is a journey of discovery. A truly great print “sings”, the tones, the colors and textures, all come together to make the work finished. As the artist, it is my responsibility to take that journey of discovery.
It is the print, and the making of it, that brings the art of photography full circle. The vision that started in my mind’s eye becomes the work of my hands, an object for your hands, meant to inspire a vision in your mind’s eye.
You can be assured if you purchase a print signed by me that means it is a print made by me, to the very best of my ability.