Some look for the new, the pretty, the latest thing to photograph. Myself though, I find myself cruising slowly down back roads, access ways and two lane highways. I look for and find the forgotten factory, the abandoned barn or house the car that is more rust than steel There are the subjects I like to capture before time and the elements erase all trace of their existence. When I shoot an abando
ned house I want the viewer to be able to place themselves in the shoes of the people who once lived there. If I shoot an overgrown cemetery I want the living to feel the years that have passed for those who've passed beyond. An old tractor that sits alone in a field is an unwritten tale to me and it is up to the person who looks upon my work to write that tale. In this way I play witness, historian and purveyor of stories all at one time. I've often been asked where or how do I find the places I shoot. Or if I could share the location. My answer to the first is this. Get up one morning. Fill up your car. Make sure you've a few water bottles and some munchies. Then go out to your car find an old country road and get lost. Lose yourself. Drive slowly let people pass you. Stop occasionally really look at what's around you, sooner or later you begin to discover what has been there. As sharing my locations… they are already there but you have to find them yourself, the places I find may not have the magic for you that they have for me if you're just shown the way. The beauty, the sadness the mystery these places have are equal to the journey undertaken to find them.
