The Best of 2025
2025 has been a very productive year for my photography.
I travelled extensively, and those journeys were both intense and rewarding.
Every place I visited allowed me to continue my lifelong interest in the relationship between natural landscape and workspace in an urban environment, searching how the two overlap and interact.
As I wrote in my recent tribute to Philip Perkis, I am more and more aware of how his teaching guide me to this day so I included a few excerpts from his book "Teaching Photography - Notes Assembled" (OB Press).
2025 Workspace Series
In the following selection, I focused my attention on urban environments where human experience is shaped by productivity.
I found this paragraph from Phil's books quite fitting:
“I began to realize that the content of street photography is often based on a kind of criticism or at least a sense of irony. The photographer is in a superior position to the subject as an observer who can isolate and shift context through choice of frame and timing of exposure.
Photographing people in public spaces also creates a level of tension and frequently a flow of adrenaline that is apparent in some of the photographs and contributes to the content."
2025 Landscape Series
Places of industry and work are especially revealing, as they speak directly about how we live today. When ancient monuments sit within contemporary settings, they create layered landscapes where time, nature, and human activity — work or leisure — come together and help us better understand our contemporary society.
In a way, Philip and I share the fact that after practicing urban street photography, we both shifted our lenses towards nature. This is what he wrote in regards to this:
"The question becomes how to introduce emotional content in landscape photography without all the ammunition that one has in social situations…
...Can I make a photograph of nature (the woods) that can be next to one of my pictures of people on the street and it will sit there with 'meaning?'"
