Random Encounters: Artist Statement

The core of my photography is random.

Without an agenda or preconceived plan, I randomly wander the streets---mostly in dense, blighted urban environments---and I make photographs of subjects I findi worthy of a photograph.   I have only one inviolable rule:  I will not touch or change any subject:  I photograph only what I see, exactly as I find it, without alteration.  If an image looks like a collage, it is so because that is how I found it.

This gallery is a collection of the images I have found while engaged in my random wanderings.