East Williamsburg, or Bushwick, or Ridgewood, or rather the intersection of the three, is all the rage now. Groups of French-speaking tourists follow their guides through the sunny streets colonized by bars, cafes and restaurants, to gaze at the open-air murals that now grace the formerly dilapidated walls of old shops and warehouses. The artists had arrived a few years back to fill the space vacated by waning manufacture and distribution enterprises. A few industrial buildings were converted to lofts. Now the trend is in full swing. Businesses and yoga studios are popping out everywhere and residential buildings are bought and…

Nature is my inspiration

Bernd and Hilla Becher’s photographs have been a great inspiration, and not surprisingly they are more effective in multiples, enabling us to see the pattern. They also drive home the function-driven similarity between industrial and natural forms, illustrated by my juxtaposition of suspended cisterns and kohlrabi roots.

A major inspiration for my work, Japanese woodblock prints had spectacularly clear geometry in the way the composition was framed.

Silver Gellatin Fiber 9×12 in

Tarkovski’s vision is one of my major influences. His work combines careful observation of nature with a touch of nostalgia. This is one of the photographs I took while traveling to Italy. I experienced there a phenomenon unique to that part of the world, a phenomenon often depicted in Italian baroque paintings which I had often dismissed as a product of artistic license and exaggeration. But on traveling there, I discovered the artists were very literally copying what they saw: on certain summer storms, the clouds would spiral and churn dramatically in little movements, sometimes…

Silver Gellatin Fiber 11x14in

Digital photographs

Digital photographs