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I'm a flâneur, described by Charles Baudelaire, an 1800s French poet thusly: “For the perfect flâneur, for the passionate spectator, it is an immense joy to set up house in the heart of the multitude, amid the ebb and flow of movement, in the midst of the fugitive and the infinite. To be away from home and yet to feel oneself everywhere at home; to see the world, to be at the center of the world, and yet to remain hidden from the world”.
I'm also an introvert. My art allows me to express myself and communicate without intrusion. I'm not asocial but my arts offer more time and depth in communicating with others.
My first recollection of photography is my father's odd room and the smell of chemicals and brown bottles in the 1950s, then photos I took in the early 1960s of friends, family, and things. In the 1970s my stepfather loaned me an Argus C3 and photography was an essential part of my life. The photographic techniques I use depend upon my response to a subject and the technique...