I have been blessed with a passion for photography as a medium of artistic expression since the age of 21. In that year, I took an introductory course in college on photography. It changed my life. ​I also love to write, draw, and paint, but what intrigues me about the object that is a photograph is its power as a document. A camera is a machine that records whatever is in front of it. As everything in the universe is trapped in the tides of time, that one moment will never happen again.

​In my body of work, I am trying to express the ubiquitous tension that I see between horror and awe, chaos and order. Given all of the awful things that happen in this world, it is easy to become lost. However, there is also great Beauty around us, literally everywhere one looks. The trick, admittedly difficult to master, is to remain aware of both extremes, yet lost in neither.

Yet even Beauty is complicated, for in Beauty, there is inevitably loneliness, especially when it is not shared-which is often when it is most intense (for me, anyway). In addition, Nature’s Beauty comes with the set of brutal, chaotic principles embodied in Natural Law. Animals must eat other animals or plants in order to survive. Plants must ruthlessly compete with each other for sunlight and nutrients.

Images of people often appear in my work. Upon approach, they are almost always strangers to me, in what someone once called “your lone wolf thing.” Each person is also typically alone, like me. I like photographing them up close, such that they fill the image, although I always try to include something of their surroundings. I believe that the environment in which a person lives powerfully shapes who they become.

One criticism of my “people pictures” which I treasure is that they are “too real.” In the best of them, it is my hope that you can see both the fragility and resilience of the person standing before the camera. In the act of photographing them, a connection is made, even if only briefly-in the spirit of the type of love that the ancient Greeks called philia (friendship).

Beauty and Love are about Order. The darker side of life is about Chaos.   ​

Life would be so much simpler if we just had a good map, guiding us as to how to negotiate between the two-chaos and order. But if such a map exists, I have not seen it. Instead, we must each piece together our own-a necessarily imperfect one from the clues offered; clues like the moments in these photographs.

I am Witness.

All of the images on this website are available as limited editions of 10 fine art custom-made prints, each one printed with the finest available archival inks and paper, individually signed and numbered by the artist.

Printed cards, also made with archival materials and suitable for mailing, are also available for many of the images. To make a purchase, please click here to contact us on the website for Gallery Huracan.