“I picked up a camera for the first time because I wasn’t very good at drawing. Twenty-five years later, I have yet to put my camera down. 

After being rejected from RISD’s animation program, I chose to attend their photography program instead, my second choice. After some time at RISD, I moved to Philadelphia to study under Robert Crites, and was introduced to the ‘Diana’ camera, the camera that Dr. Crites took with him everywhere he went. The images were raw, out of focus, poorly exposed but intense & dramatic; exactly what we weren’t learning in class. In 1991, just before graduation, Professor John Weiss of the University of Delaware came to speak about a digital imaging program that they wanted to start at the University, & after grabbing my diploma I left Philly & headed south to the small, slower paced town of Newark, Delaware. Moving from a great city to a small town was like jumping off a treadmill going full speed: there was nothing to do, nothing to photograph & not really any students who were pushing the boundaries at all. Unmotivated, John Weiss pushed me to discover the powers of Photoshop 2.0, which at the time was about the most powerful imaging program around.. I was quickly hooked & began working non-stop creating image effects from my then state-of-the-art Casio VT100 still video camera.

Fast forward ten years, and after countless days retouching everything from cars to models to comping endless ads. I reached in the back of my camera bag for that old Diana. Now replaced with a half dozen modified Holga 120’s, I document life, people, time, events & experiences with a little $20 plastic camera. And I wouldn’t have it any other way. All film, no crops, no digital effects, just the pure raw image. The same way I saw it back in 1988 on Robert Crites’ wall. It just took me almost 20 years to realize that we don’t need fancy effects to create a memorable image: you just need a great image.”

I live in Delaware with my wife, Kristen Hudson, owner of Milk Maid Press Design and Stationery Studio, and lead photographer at Jubilee Photography.

Mailing Address:  PO Box 111, Montchanin, DE 19710