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I've been taking pictures forever, with whatever cameras I had on
hand. 110's when I was a kid and then a Minolta 35mm SLR I got for my birthday when I was 14. However, I never continued down the manual camera path, I just shot with automatics, always really liking the snapshot format, even if the photos didn't always turn out how I wanted them to be.
During and after college, often with my brother Todd, I travelled as much as possible, cultivating a nomadic "work, move, play, repeat" kind of model, always taking tons of photos. I eventually started using Milwaukee as a home base, did a fanzine, started racing
motorcycles, and that is where I met my current business partner. That partnership has engendered a teaming up of sorts that facilitated us building and opening a number of cafes and bar/restaurants that not only fed a certain creativity in me/us, but also allows us to, again, travel and enjoy life. And of course that includes documenting it all with photographs.
I use several different kinds of cameras, but the one I love the most is my Yashica Samurai Half Frame, which I found used in now long gone photo shop in Milwaukee. I always use Fuji 200 film in that camera, which over-saturates and candy glazes all my photos, which I love. I also print the pictures on an ink jet process film that is mounted on pvc backing board. The process is the same used in trade show exhibit graphics, making them durable and colorfast, and lend a quasi commercial element to the finished product. |
