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Welcome to my Fine Art America website.   I hope you enjoy the images here.   They were made over a period of many years, although most are recent.   They represent a number of photographic disciplines, as well as some which are most akin to painting.   A graduate of the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in photography, my philosophy of image-making revolves around seeing the ordinary in new and unique ways; as well as producing images of the highest possible visual quality.   Having spent many years as a commercial photographer, specializing in catalog,...more
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Asylum

Forest Haven is a former asylum for the mentally retarded, located near Laurel, Maryland. It housed 1,100 patients before being closed in 1991 and subsequently abandoned. There was a long history of brutality, exploitation and abuse at the place; and once inside, imagining what occurred within the deteriorating walls is powerful and visceral. These images are the beginning of a continuing project.

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