The color photographs are from a series called "natural photomontages".  All these images are one-exposure reflections captured in Chicago.  The photos document a visual phenomenon deriving from the many walls of glass in our city's modern architecture.  Glass -- with both its transparent and reflective properties -- combines the surrounding structures, people and activity of city life into intriguing images that seem designed for photography.  Old architecture merges with the new, the outdoors with the in doors, strange encounters occur between people on the outside and inside.

Many of these color photos were taken in 1998 and 1999 and were reflections in the windows of local and federal government buildings – even one in O’Hare Airport.  Since September 11, 2001, it is now impossible to take such pictures in these places and increasingly difficult to point a camera at any building window, private or public.  

There is no darkroom or computer manipulation involved in the creation of these images. They are C-41 prints from one negative produced on Fuji archival paper.

Black and white photos are gelatin silver prints, selenium toned for maximum stability. These images are truly archival because time, not lab experiment, has proven that tradition black and white silver prints last more than 100 years.  Currently only the 11 x 14 size is available in black and white. 

Hand painted photos are gelatin silver prints hand painted with Marshall oils.