I have had a 20 year love affair with New York. Although I have lived in suburbs, small towns, and have rural roots, the city is where my heart lies. Wherever I photograph, I see things from the perspective of a New Yorker. The experience of 9-11 only made me embrace the city all the more and propelled me to express this love through my art.

The urban experience to me is largely about motion. The intense pace and vitality of the city excites me; I like to shoot fast and furiously, to be totally immersed and to be swept up in, and along with, the tide of the moment.

Either I am shooting people that are in motion or I myself am in movement around my subject. I will stalk my subjects, be they a swarm of gesturing humans or abstract shapes of color and light.

I use a $20 plastic camera called the Holga. The long overlapping images are created by only partially advancing the film between exposures – the overlapping occurs in the film itself. It delights me how well these mostly unplanned juxtapositions capture my experience of a particular time and place and at the same time have an identity all their own.