The 50 States Project

March 9, 2009

“Photography has the remarkable power to impress into our memory a distillation of a particular segment of time. Carefully chosen words can describe a situation, but the photograph has a direct line to our soul. The desire to hold memories of how a moment looks, smells, and feels, led me to be a photographer.”

“I grew up on a farm in south-central Kansas. Describing it as subtle is something of an understatement. During my childhood I learned to observe very carefully and saw beauty in those long, flat, monotonous fields. I have photographed in many places, but my point of reference is always formed by the empty, minimalist Kansas landscape of my youth.”

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