Proof
“Proof: Ruminations on the Everyday” was published in 2004 by Crotalus Publishing. The essays and images in the book reveal the process of making a body of work. The text is, for the most part, derived from journal entries that I made during the creation of Proof as it was conceived for my MFA thesis at the University of Minnesota. Thus, the work has a very Midwestern feel – four seasons come and go, dictating new patterns. The photographs themselves are evidence, or proof, of my own existence; a journal documenting my daily life as a 28 and 29 year-old photographer, husband, son, student, teacher, friend…

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Sipping Champagne, December 31st

 

Great Lakes Aquarium, January 24th

 

Art Institute of Chicago, March 3rd


Archive, April 2nd

 

Studio Window, May 17th

 

Interstate 94, July 11th


Norway, August 18th

 

State Fair, September 1st

 

Doorway, October 25th


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