Q: The large silver gelatin prints I've seen from "The Boarding House" are very attractive physically and formally. Please speak about the importance of square format, camera, film and the technical and formal decisions that are involved in your practice. How do you go about making such beautiful prints?
A: I am the last generation to have grown up developing film and printing in a darkroom. It takes not years to master black and white printing, but decades and as a consequence we will see less and less people produce silver prints. All my photographs that I sell are silver gelatin selenium toned prints insuring that they will be archival in nature.
For the last twenty years nearly all my photographs have been with a square format camera. I am obsessed with formal composition in an image and the square being a perfect form is an ideal format for me to compose my images.
It is quite crucial that all the elements of my images are sharp and in focus. Consequently I use a 400 ASA film with a flash which generally guarantees this result.
[Above photograph from "The Boarding House].
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