Animalis which comes from the Latin term literally meaning, “to have breath” and where our english word “animal” comes from. For this project I did not want to shoot "wildlife". My goal was to capture the "soul" of each animal. These are very intimate portraits - not editorial wildlife images. All my prints start out as black and white silver prints (printed on very old German Agfa paper) which are then manipulated in the darkroom via entropic processes I have developed over the years to bring out certain varied aspects of the film and print grain by the manipulation of the silver metals in the paper. My goal in these images is to be part document, part cave drawing and part dream. As in all my work I am in effect attempting to mine the spaces that exist between photography, mark making, science and religion.
The name of this series is Animalis which comes from the Latin term literally meaning, “to have breath†and where our english word “animal†comes from.
For this project I did not want to shoot "wildlife". My goal was to capture the "soul" of each animal. These are very intimate portraits - not editorial wildlife images.
All my prints start out as black and white silver prints (printed on very old German Agfa paper) which are then manipulated in the darkroom via entropic processes I have developed over the years to bring out certain varied aspects of the film and print grain by the manipulation of the silver metals in the paper.
My goal in these images is to be part document, part cave drawing and part dream.
As in all my work I am in effect attempting to mine the spaces that exist between photography, mark making, science and religion.