ARTIST STATEMENT

Before I retired from medicine in 2004, I resolved to learn as much as I could about the new methods of digital photographic image acquisition, enhancement and printing. Not without some irony, my study of digital image manipulation inspired me to explore some of the more elegant printing methods of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, in particular, the hand printed images in Platinum/Palladium on heavyweight rag papers.

One may legitimately wonder why someone would choose to work exclusively with the vintage methods of hand done photochemical printing in platinum/palladium in the midst of rapid advances for printing beautiful photographic images with a desktop digital printer. The answer lies with the thought that for an image to become a photograph it must undergo distillation to its purest essence in the final print, a lasting, unique and authentic object not just to see, but also to hold in the hand and to hang on a wall.