Artist's Statement

As a parish pastor, photography gives me a unique avenue for seeing God's presence in life and death in and around me. Together with parish ministry, it shapes both how I interpret the memories I have received and how I understand myself. Photography helps me straddle that precarious balance between what is within and what is without, giving it a creative expression as fascinating as it can be frustrating. In parish ministry I am commissioned with the care and feeding of God's people, lifting up to holy memory the stories of God's redeeming presence in their lives. I am thus constantly reminded that life is more than me: I am drawn out of myself. Photography gives me the freedom to look back inside to listen to the story of God's presence in my life as I experience the world. It is God's token giving me that which I need to feed and replenish myself, building the memories that lie within me. In making images of the world around me, I find I am invited to allow one to inform and deepen the other. Like a window opening one room to another, it can be difficult to decide which is giving light to which, ministry or photography. But, through the years, they have become two doorposts in my life holding up the lintel that bears for me the memory of redemption and grace. This is what I seek to express in my photographs - images of redemption and grace. I hope they speak thus to you. Enjoy.

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