Artist Statement
As someone who started late in life, I have a lifetime of experience to build upon. My work is now about things I actively care about. It starts with a strong concept. When it works, it draws an emotional response that leads to the viewer thinking about things they might have been ignoring. Constantly frustrated by the limits of the flat image, I have explored alternative presentations and currently working with adding sound and voice. I have no time to be cool.
Process Statement
Most of my work is done on large format color film which is scanned and printed digitally. I used to print color darkroom, a difficult process. That experience enriches what I do. Currently, the choice is more about how the strangers in my work are charmed by the wooden camera which softens the imbalance of power between the sitter and me.
Photography is Chuck’s third career the result of a passion acquired in Maine many years ago. Most of his work is done on film. The monochrome is printed in the traditional darkroom, the color scanned and printed on inkjet printers. Although an accomplished Cibachrome printer, he no longer prints color in the darkroom although the experience in color and contrast management strongly affects how he prints digitally.
Becoming full time in 2008 changed the work in profound ways. Previously, the work showed people anonymously and was more about the public space. In this new time, the work has become intensely personal - often involving portraiture. This can be seen in The Album Project, Precious Objects and, still in progress, Costumes. Even Every Place – I Have Ever Lived, where people in the images are largely unrecognizable, is uniquely personal, beginning with my childhood home that was in foreclosure and continuing in all my lifetime neighborhoods the work has become less traditionally photographic both in form and method.
Chuck studied photography at Maine Photographic Workshop, Parsons School of Design, International Center for Photography, Lakeland Community College and Cuyahoga Community College.
He is a director of ICA–Art Conservation in Cleveland, OH and the Cleveland Museum of Art – Friends of Photography. His interest in preservation and conservation is reflected in his service to the ICA and in careful attention to producing work that lasts. Chuck is a Life Director at Jewish Family Services of Cleveland.
His work can be found in museum, private and corporate collections in North America, Europe and Asia.
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