John is an emerging artist working in photography. He was a wildlife photographer for ten years and began working in long exposure fine art photography when he began the Intermedia MFA program at the University of Maine in 2008. He completed half of the program before deciding to pause to persue other interests and build a larger body of work before completing a masters degree. While working in wildlife photography, he was published in Photographer's Forum magazine, Nature's Best magazine, and was in the book Visions of South Texas for winning an on location conservation focused photography contest hosted by theValley Land Fund of South Texas. His nature photographs were shown in the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History as a part of the Nature's Best magazine awards exhibition in 2004. Since
working with long exposures his technical pursuit has been to explore new techniques by working with artists from other disciplines. John's personal interest is to find out what religious narrative imagery would look like for an agnostic or atheist in today's increasingly areligous world and the mechanisms by which that imagery evolves. During the MFA he collaborated with classmates at the University of Maine as well as students in Keane State College's dance therapy department. Since moving to Portland, Maine, he was a member of the Dooryard Artist Collective and completed a short residency at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art. He has worked with several Portland based artists but his primary ongoing collaboration has been with stencil artist Gibrian Foltz, president of the Dooryard Artist Collective.
working with long exposures his technical pursuit has been to explore new techniques by working with artists from other disciplines. John's personal interest is to find out what religious narrative imagery would look like for an agnostic or atheist in today's increasingly areligous world and the mechanisms by which that imagery evolves. During the MFA he collaborated with classmates at the University of Maine as well as students in Keane State College's dance therapy department. Since moving to Portland, Maine, he was a member of the Dooryard Artist Collective and completed a short residency at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art. He has worked with several Portland based artists but his primary ongoing collaboration has been with stencil artist Gibrian Foltz, president of the Dooryard Artist Collective.