"Caught in the Web"

Caught in the Web is a metaphor for living in the San Francisco - Oakland bay area. The bay area has seen many treasure hunters land on its shores. The term 49ers is as recognizable as dot-commer. The fortunes to be found are being uncovered in San Francisco, Berkeley, Oakland, Redwood City, Palo Alto, San Mateo, Burlingame, Sausalito and the list includes every city in this large metropolitan area.

Caught in the Web is a series of fifty digital photographs taken in the bay area between the months of November 1999 and July of 2000. The images run the gamut from street photography, cityscapes, portraits and any event that intrigued my interest..

These photographs are the visual records of the changes on the streets, cafes, traffic and the people of th Bay Area. They are demolishing a large section of Mission Street from the Embarcedero to Fifth Street, the buildings that remain are meager memories of the past. The changes are as devastating as the tornado's path through a trailer park.

I would like to hang an exhibition of these fifty photographs. This series of photographs incorporates every aspect of consumer digital photography. The ultimate goal is to educate and inform the public of what is now digitally possible. Digital cameras, archival inks, inkjet papers, inkjet printers, photoshop and the web are the tools available to the digital photographer. The perceived chasm between film and digital is very narrow.

The photographic past will not be forgotten as these technologies evolve. I want to caress the past and embrace the future.