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“I have been lucky enough to find something that has kept my interest for an awfully long time. There have been times of incredible frustration but never boredom. As an artist I was looking for material that would sustain my interest for a long period of time. In the gardens I found endless subject matter […]

The third set of images from the Kyoto garden series made with the 8×10 view camera. These gardens, reverently preserved and universally admired, stand as monuments to the skillful principles of Japanese garden and landscape art. I chose to photograph with an 8×10 view camera, because it interpreted the gardens with unparalleled precision. These images

The second set of images from the Kyoto garden series made with the 8×10 view camera. If Japan can be said to have any surviving hidden treasures in this day of mass tourism, certainly these magnificent gardens hold that distinction. To visit them is certainly one of the chief pleasures of a stay in Japan’s

From the spring of 1979, through the summer of 1991, I spent four months of each year, in different seasons, photographing the temples and gardens of Kyoto. My concern was not to merely document the rich, cultural heritage that these gardens represent, but to pursue the inner, hidden reality, the very essence of beauty that