I grew up in Thunder Bay, Ontario - a small city in central Canada on the north shore of Lake Superior. I discovered my interest in photography at around the age of 13 when my father gave me a vintage twin-reflex camera that hadn’t been used for years. But it wasn’t until a few decades later, when I purchased my first digital camera, that I began to pursue more “serious” work.
Through photography I try to portray the fragility and transience of man’s place in the world. I am interested in experiencing landscapes and cityscapes as being scattered with evidence that people have been present, built something, scratched a living out of the earth, come, and gone, to be followed by others who build something else. I am fascinated by signs of human effort -— poignant, magnificent, comic or fruitless -— to own the landscape by building on it, extracting from it, exploiting it, playing on it.
My next book of photographs, "Houses of Worship", will be published soon. My two previous books are "Sweet Seas. Portraits of the Great Lakes" (2012) and "Roads" (2010). All have been published by Fifth House.
I live now in Ottawa, Canada with my wife, daughters and cats.
Please visit my website: www.luxetveritas.net
