at first glance your work seems very diverse and it almost comes across like you haven't developed a particular style yet...

i can see how one would definetly interpret this site that way. i think my more recent work definetly betrays a more concrete style, however.

      and what exactly would you classify that style as? what are some images that define that style?

i'm particularly pleased with a couple of recent projects. one of them is "this is a selfish self-awareness" and the other is the (very) short series with faces in plastic bags... as far as a particular style? i'm not sure i have a name for it, but i suppose i could just make it up here on the spot. i would call myself an "art-shock photographer," i suppose.

      an 'art-shock' photographer, eh? how did you come to this kind of edgy art anyways?

quite by accident, i think. i could very easily blame it on too much reading of strange books, but if i had to point fingers, i'm not sure i could. ever since high school, and sometimes before that, i was more interested in more morbid themes, and i think that that is being portrayed in my photographic work as well.

      are there any other photographers that you would consider a major influence on your work?

there is one other photographer that i can think of off the top of my head named Melanie Pullen, who is probably the only photographer that i know of directly who is shooting anything near what i like for my themes. she has a book out called "high fashion crime scenes" that is very good. another major influence is James Fee. he changed the way i looked at photography actually, and i can honestly say i don't think i would've been a photographer if it hadn't have been for one of his books. one last photographer that definetly needs mentioning is Nick Brandt, whose book of african animal portraits is superb.

      are there any other things that you would consider to be heavy influences on your art?... the news, perhaps?

i grew up listening to NPR and other than that... i pretty much try to avoid it like the plague. i do, however, greatly enjoy cop dramas and medical dramas on tv. probably one of the biggest for me would be CSI (vegas). the movie stigmata, sin city, ... the highly artistic types that also tend to be... a little out there, possibly offensive and often somewhat violent as well, though there are definetly exceptions to that rule (such as amelie or finding neverland.) i would also have to site the works of edgar allen poe and some other more... horror oriented writers. they wrote ... well... i'll just call it beautiful death, and i don't see that as disimiliar to some of what i'm doing.

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