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The catalogue for Walker Evans's exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, prepared by John Szarkowski in 1971, opened with a quotation from Walt Whitman:
I do not doubt but the majesty and beauty of the world are latent in any iota of the world ...I do not doubt there is far more in trivialities, insects, vulgar persons, slaves, dwarfs, weeds, rejected refuse, than I have supposed...
This passage has been quoted countless times in the context of photography with good reason. It allows us to sum up the difference between photographing flowers and photographing a milk bottle on a tenement fire escape. I tend to gravitate to photographing the milk bottle and not the flower.

All of my photography is a progression. I try to make pictures about the world around me. They are a reaction as much as they are a cause of framing a subject. I have been making pictures since sometime in early high school in New York City with my first camera a 35mm Yashica. After living in Miami, FL for over ten years I have moved Brooklyn, NY where I can be found either hauling around a large format camera or drinking coffee and to working on my blog.