Motives, method and philosophy. First let's clear up the obvious - yes, I'm a voyeur. I don't think that's an unusual trait in a photographer. Especially those of us that mostly photograph members of whatever gender appeals.

Method is probably more interesting. Except for those "post-modernists" that put a camera somewhere relatively random and program it to expose at relatively random intervals, the rest of us choose where the camera will be and when it will expose and therefore show a lot of ourselves in those choices. A photograph is prima facia evidence that a photographer was present and that there was interaction of some sort between the subject and the artist. I don't try to deny that in my pictures, but more or less make a point of the interaction, and when possible invite the viewer to take my place vicariously.

Philosophy just seemed to fill out the triumverate of the title. Though others have vested my stuff with philosophy of various sorts, mostly my own is that the models in my photographs are human beings and should be shown as such, rather than as inanimate objects or graphic designs or meat. If anyone ever writes about my work after I'm dead I'd love to see what they'd have to say, though that's both unlikely (former) and impossible (latter).

P.S. (Sorry Trish.) This is Trish. See her link off to the right. More of her after our next shoot in early June.