STREET-LEVEL PHOTOS

On this part of my website you will see images from the other life I have led and continue to pursue, that of observer of the world around me as a photographer. My photographic work is represented in European collections including the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris, France, and the Neue Sammlung in Munich, Germany as well as in university and personal collections in this country and the Fogg Art Museum in Cambridge, MA.

Here you will find images some of which relate to fishing and many which do not; you will find personal documents, pictures of Americana, landscapes, city-scapes, and river and water images.

These images are now available for sale in print sizes from 8x10 to 20x24 inches or even larger for digital prints. Black and white images dated after 1991 are available in either traditional silver gelatin form, or as digitally produced prints. Color photographs and any work dated from before 1991 are available as digitally produced prints only, as I lost 25+ years of negatives in the Oakland firestorm of 1991.

Silver gelatin prints range in price from $975 to $2,350 depending on size.

Digital prints range in price from $475 to $1,500, again depending on size.

Please also check back for new photos as I post them.

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Rivers and Waters

The following photographs of waters and rivers are the result of over 40 years of looking at, into and through water, often while fishing. I began by photographing mostly urban rivers and streams near my home in New York State in the late 1980's, but it was perhaps the experience of dry fly fishing for steelhead in British Columbia which inspired my more recent work with the subject. I told my friend Tom Morgan how much I enjoyed the meditative aspect of step and cast, step and cast in a repeating movement down the pool or holding run. His comment was "that's the great thing about dry fly steelhead fishing; the fish don't interupt you very often!" So true, and it allows plenty of time to just be and look, and most of the time you are looking at the water surface where your fly is, trying to spot any suspicious swirl or bulge indicating the interest of a fish. Doing that for hours on end does something to one's mind and I think one of the things these photographs are about is that state of mind of focused, attentive looking which is also open and receptive.

You may note that the following work also includes images which reflect man's influence on flowing waters. This work continues here in New England with an emphasis on the mix of industry historically affecting our large and small waters. I am expanding this work concerning water to include the use of cameras up to 8x10 inches; yes, still shooting film...

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Firewater, New York Harbor 1965

Shin Creek enters upper Beaverkill 2002

Torrent River, NewfoundlandT 2002

Fishing Mural at the Cascapedia Salmon Museum on the Gaspe, Quebec 1999

River from overpass, Los Angeles, CA ca1998

Fishermen, Bronx River, South Bronx, New York ca 1986

Morice River, northern British Columbia ca 1995

Morice River, British Columbia, ca 1995

Neversink River Birches ca 2010

Fir Brook in Winter 2020

Bronx River, South Bronx, NY ca 1986

Long Island Sound, NY 1978

Cars Installed to Stabilize Banks, Big Hole River, MT 1974

Upper West Kill, Spruceton, NY 2011

Rods, Rodmakers and Rodmaking

These photographs are often personal in nature, depicting people, places and situations I have come across in my 50+ years in fly fishing and around bamboo rods. Now over 70 years old, these images are a bit of a walk down memory lane...

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John Napoli casting Brandin tournament rod, Long Beach Casting Club ca 1997; available as digital print only

Wall of Fame in old El Cerrito shop 1998. I shared this shop with Mario Wojnicki until 2001 when I moved back East and Mario eventually moved to Alsace in France.

Shuttered San Pablo Ave Shop, El Cerrito, CA ca 2012

Tom Moran and Per Brandin at the lower River Itchen Fishing Hut 1995

Tom Moran and Per Brandin on the River Itchen 1995. Tom has one of my 805-3df HB rods in his hands

Edwards Quadrate rods were my early inspiration for building square section, four strip rods. Photo ca 1981

A very early seven foot rod showing the squared front with walnut check with typical in-house hardware and walnut reel-seat filler. ca 1985

Grave of H.L. Leonard in Central Valley, NY 2005. The other side of the stone reveals that Loman Hawes, Ada Hawes, Hiram Hawes and Cora Leonard Hawes are also interred there.

Elk River Cutthroat, 1997

One of my very favorite classic rods, an 8 ft. 6 in. Eustis Edwards from the 'Filbert Street era' in 1924

Where is the Love? Graffiti on Bridge Abutment, Terrace, B.C. Canada 2021

Dean River Steelhead, Upper Hodson's Camp, Brandin 9ft. 3pc #8 line rod. 1996

A Twelve Foot Salmon Rod finished by Dana Gray on blanks by Sam Carlson. About as pretty a rod as I have ever seen.

Terenzio Flies, Tuscany, Italy 2010. These are tied by the same man who makes the wonderful silk lines.

A nice steelhead from the Dean, taken on a hitched Black Bear Green Butt, ca 1995

One ounce 6ft Leonard from the red wrap era. Photo 2006

Big Falls Humber River, Newfoundland 2011

The Long Island Project, 1978-79

The Long Island Project was funded by the National Endowment for the Arts and Olympus Camera Corp. and I was honored to be one of the photographer selected for this work. Other photographers on the project included Mark Goodman, Elaine Mayes, John Gossage, Robert Adams, Eric Baden, Ron Morris and others, and the project was conceived and executed by Apeiron Photographic Workshops and its director, Peter Schlessinger. The basic idea was to document Long Island as a microcosm of post WWII America, stretching from urban centers, through suburbia to farmland, woods and fishing villages. We were also consciously incorporating our personal aesthetics as photographers to modernize (at the time) the concept of documentary work. The resulting images are now housed at Hofstra University on Long Island and at the Fogg Museum of Art in Cambridge, MA.

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Office Plant and Woman Working; Olympus Camera offices Long Island Project 1979

Grade School, Shelter Island, Long Island, NY 1979

Cheerleaders, Shelter Island, Long Island, NY 1979

Office Workers, Grumman Aerospace 1979

Assembly Line, Endo Labs, Long Island 1979

Sod Farm, eastern Long Island, 1978

Ramona, Cafeteria Worker, Long Island, NY 1979

Plastic Human Model, Long Island, NY 1979

Guard, Brookhaven National Labs, Long Island, NY 1979

Softball players, Long Island, NY 1979

'Uncle Chewy', Poosepatuck Reservation, Long Island, NY 1979

Grumman Aerospace, Bethpage, Long Island, NY 1979

Classroom, Shelter Island, Long Island, NY 1979

Gas Station, Long Island, NY 1978

Boys Fishing, Long Isand, NY 1978

Older grandson of Mr. Treadwell, Poosepatuck Reservation, Long Island, NY 1979

Mr. Treadwell with younger grandson, Poosepatuck Reservation, Long Island, NY 1979

Grumman Aerospace, Bethpage, Long Island, NY 1979

Laboratory, Brookhaven National Labs, Long Island, NY 1979

Model Home Interior, Long Island, NY 1978

Planted Field, Eastern Long Island, NY 1978

New York City 1980

I was hired in 1980 by the StellaRe Management Co. to create photographic art for their office walls and this project took me most of that year to complete. I feel it was some of the most inspired work I have done. Images from this work are included in the permanent collections of the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris, France as well as at the Neue Sammlung in Munich, Germany as well as in other and private collections.

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Window Washer, Fifth Ave. New York

Fish Watches Man, Chinatown, NY 1980

Storefront Fifth Ave. New York

Hare Krishna Chanting, Mid-twon Manhattan, New York

Businessmen Walking, Mid-town Manhattan, New York

Family on Subway, New York

The Chimpanzee, One Species, Museum of Natural History, New York

Crab Seller, Canal Street in Lower Manhattan, New York

Hustle and Bustle, Mid-town Manhattan, New York

Crossing Bowery Street, Lower Manhattan, New York

Canal Street Gesture, Lower Manhattan, New York

Working on a Clock, Near John Street in Lower Manhattan, New York

Bruckner Arcade, New York, NY

Police on Bus, New York, NY

Wall Street, New York, NY

Window Shopping New York City 1980

Santa Claus in Window, Mid-town Manhattan, New York

New York Public Library, New York

Amerika
These photographs come under the heading Amerika, spelled with a 'K' because that is how it is spelled in Sweden which is where I came from as a child. The 'K' also indicates that these photographs are the response of an outsider, a foreigner, an immigrant, slowly finding himself at home in this vast, varied, vibrant, ironic and inspiring country, landscape and culture. When I was about 8 years old my family took a cross- country trip from Toronto, Canada to the Rockies and California and all through the USA and that mode has stayed with me since then throughout my life. I would have trouble counting the number of times I have driven across this land, looking for mysteries of fish and photographs, pleased most with the unexpected. Many of the photographs you will see here are from these journeys, mostly by car. You will also see photographs here taken in response to the places I lived, and lived close to.

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