







Visions In Platinum
Artist's Statement
Born and raised in Calgary, Alberta, the subject matter I am most passionate about is the Canadian Rockies. I mainly use ultra large-format view cameras ranging in size from 7″ X 17″, 8″ X 20″ up to the ultra-large 12″ X 20″ for my photographic work. I chose these formats because of their exaggerated rectangles, which extend the sweeping narrative of the landscape, and because they effectively articulate the way I see the world. The view camera also has the unsurpassed ability to control perspective and capture the greatest amount of detail.
For the last 20 years, I have chosen to express these images predominantly in the medium of the handcrafted platinum print because this classic process more fully reveals the entire original tonal scale. It conveys a sense of three-dimensionality and enables me to convincingly translate the elements of space, water, atmosphere, and land with a delicacy unattainable with any other process. It creates a sense of presence. From the viewers’ perspective, it invites a different way of seeing, like a journey through a new land.