We never look just at one thing. We are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves. 

(John Berger)

When I started photographing in color in the early 1980s, I had already spent a decade exploring the

possibilities of collage, so I gradually developed many photographic series informed by my “collage thinking”.

In the beginning, this involved the physical layering of a color slide and a black and white negative or 2 color or

black and white negatives to produce a complex composite image in a slide mount to be projected in a slide

show. Later, I discovered that I could produce similar effects by photographing through transparent or

translucent materials. Finally, I made several series by creating actual collages for the camera, which eventually

existed only in the slide or the print made from it. In one case, I made tiny paper collages small enough to fit

into a slide mount to then be projected. In addition, I used some of my color and black and white prints,

cyanotypes, photo etchings, photo silkscreens, and enlarged transparencies as raw material for my collages.

My goal in every case was to create images more subtle and complex than the camera could on its own but

which would feature a physical photographic element.