Black White and Gray is a series of urban landscape photographs shot along the eighty mile I-78 corridor, beginning in Pennsylvania's industrial Lehigh Valley, traveling through a cross section of both desolate and urbanized New Jersey, and then landing in the core of New York City. These are Images living in the mid tones, which find their origins in the stoic tenets of New Topographics only to wander into a romantic embrace of the often unseen animism which fills our places. This is a Lewis Baltz industrial park with a Brunelleschi perspective, or a Robert Adams trailer topped with a Fragonard Cloud. Here, geometry melds with movement, sometimes contorted. cluttered or even stretched like a rubber band, while still presenting a respect of the classic, formal and academic qualities of our built environment. There is a chimerical overlay searching for the "angels in the architecture", reflecting the dreams and concerns of the countless stream of unobservant passersby who traverse these spaces daily These are photographs which embody shades of gray, both in tone and subject matter, yet are built with tensions that set us down in an elegant romance, interacting with both our monumental shapes and structures, as well as the cacophony of our urban landscape.
