“Beauty will Save the World”

—Fyodor Dostoevsky

Beauty is the compelling counterpoint to the litany of human foibles that collectively could undermine one’s faith in humanity.

The camera and lens are remarkable in their insatiable quest to draw us in to seeing beauty in new ways, in our unquenchable urge to create yet more beauty. Beauty will save the world because it saves us from losing sight of the exquisite unnameable quality that fills us when we are exposed to it, and we pay attention.

The camera is an opportunity to edit the visual world, to frame in rectangular structure, and to say to the viewer, THIS!