Someone once said of photographer Edward Weston’s prints of twisted green peppers that they were more erotic than his nudes.  But what then of his nudes?  It could be argued they went beyond eroticism because Weston wanted all his photographs to show “the thing itself” -- Kant’s das Ding an sich.  In the end, they were more than the thing itself.  His images went beyond conveying something about the subject, and in the process became art.   Certainly a noble goal worth emulating.

          I attempt in my images to at least show something about the subjects themselves.  Having been a journalist for 20 years provided me with the experience of getting to know stories of people from all walks of life -- from 12-years old boys with bruises on their legs from rubber bullets in the streets of Belfast, to traders on the floors of the Chicago exchanges facing technology that changed their lives, to aspiring fashion models.  My images represent a collaboration between me and the subject that, with a little luck, show something about the subject, and perhaps a bit more.