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Following in the footsteps of Henri Cartier Bresson, Elliott Erwitt, Garry Winogrand, and Helen Levitt has brought me to my own beat in street photography. I search, or spontaneously respond, to capture what otherwise escapes notice – a revelation that alters our awareness, punctures pretension, and mines irony from surface appearances.

Shooting for warmth and wit within composed geometries, my images – while sometimes amusing – transcend terse irony to turn the real into the surreal and the quotidian into the quintessential. Often, we don’t see what we might, but my camera does.

Toward this revelatory end, I have documented contemporary culture and society in the streets of North America, The United Kingdom, Western and Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Cuba.