I've been taking photographs for twenty years, at least. My grandfather gave me my first camera before I was in high school. I've never been a good news photographer, or street photographer, I've always been unsatisfied by my inability to capture the world as it really is, so I've spent my time capturing the world as I think it should be. This show is a collection of images that all have something to do with the air and with things being where they shouldn't. There's no lofty overarching meaning, no political commentary, no postmodern paradigm, I just like things that float.

For years it has been the popular assumption was that photographs don't lie -- but, of course, they do, and they've lied since the very beginnings of photography even before alexander gardner arranged the civil war dead in more dramatic poses in 1863. Inherrently, when you're showing something that really only existed for one sixtieth of a second, there's an immediate misrepresentation -- you're not showing the world as it is, but as it was for a fraction of time and that slice of time can be wholly unrepresentative of reality. My images are just an intentional lie about reality.

The people in Everything's Up In The Air are mostly my friends, people who wanted portraits, people who stopped over looking to borrow my vacuume cleaner but got roped into staying for photos.

It's nice to see them all together.