While making my picture window photographs, I came to think that every room was like a gigantic camera forever pointed at the same view.

While making my picture window photographs, I came to think that every room was like a gigantic camera forever pointed at the same view.

People think the camera steals their soul. Places, I am convinced, are affected in the opposite direction. The more they are photographed (or drawn and painted) the more soul they seem to accumulate.

I often wondered why I was attracted to certain landscapes and not others and why my photographs (and depictions by other artists) looked the way they did, Archetypes imprinted on my mind started me on a search.

Photography, of course, is the perfect medium for the investigation. It can reveal the truth of present day specifics and particularities, while at the same time, by conscious choice of lighting and pictorial structure, suggest the aesthetic legacy of the past.

I became wary of simple interpretations that assumed fixed and final meanings.

As Estelle Jussim wrote, it is almost impossible for a single photograph to state both the problem and the solution.