INTRODUCTION
When I bought my first 35 mm camera (a sturdy, all manual, Zenith EM!), my passion for photography lay in shooting simple black-and-white abstract images. I was inspired by the likes of André Kertész, Man Ray and László Moholy-Nagy who all had an admirable ability for seeking out and creating abstract and semi-abstract photographs from the world around them. The strength of their images lies in their graphic nature and imaginative composition, with subject matter of only secondary importance.
After working for several years as a general commercial photographer, I realized that photographing architecture offered me the greatest commercial opportunity for exploiting that same passion. The subject matter of the architectural photographer ...
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