Biography

George was born in King City, California, and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. From a young age he seemed destined to work in the arts, first with painting, then with music, and finally with photography. As an avid backpacker in the High Sierra, and a lover of wilderness, he was drawn to landscape photography. Early in his photographic career, he realized that he preferred the look of contact prints to enlargements.

He started using a 4x5 camera in 1987, the same year he moved to Alaska. Since 1990 he has used an 8x10 field camera and returned to the old processes of developing the sheet film in pyro and contact printing on Azo, the last of the silver chloride papers. His photography is based on seeing more than technical matters or subject matter. He hopes to reverence the deep beauty of the universe, which he sees as evidence for a universal intelligence. He considers his biggest influence to be Michael A. Smith and Paula Chamlee.

George's most recent exhibitions were a five-person show at the Metropolitan Center for the Visual Arts in Gaithersburg, MD (January 8 to February 4, 2006) and a solo show at the Galerie Johannes Faber in Vienna, Austria (February 18 to April 15, 2006).

Artist Statement

I intend to see as clearly and deeply as I can. Seeing holistically, seeing the whole, seeing the holy. Photography is a way of practicing contemplative seeing, and sharing that seeing. All photographs are illusions, visual trickery, but contact prints are the finest photographic illusions.

The seer and the seen: are they separate with distinct boundaries? Or are they part of one continuous whole? Is all that I see inside me? What is aware of what I see? What is aware of what I think? What is aware of what I feel? What is awareness?

I am grateful for what I see and the process of seeing. The journey continues; I keep asking questions. Receiving the light, I’m thankful, and give back.

To see George's images in our online gallery, click here.

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