My first passion with photography fostered four decades of concert and musician imagery. Capturing that performance-moment has been my obsession, on and off since the late seventies. Sadly, while working in music and performing arts, I'd missed shooting more artists than I'd captured. Music is a great influence in my life. And as a fan, shooting that perfect candid moment is still a great rush.

To fuse expression, composition, focus with dynamic stage lighting, while avoiding waving hands, abrupt theatrics, mic stands, erratic, non-stop motion and precarious access to the stage is the challenge. I generally shoot with no artificial lighting out of respect for the artist and audience, in favor of the warmth and dynamic contrast of low-light stage settings. This prompts me to constantly approach events with different manual settings, forces me to mitigate graininess, blur, depth of field and exposure. As this nets out few great shots, I never take anything for granted.

My interest in shooting performances has broadened to fire spinners, aerial silk artists, dancers, burlesque, carnival acts, Burning Man art, Steampunk fashion and anything with quirky street pageantry. There is much to explore capturing these subjects. I like the notion that at some future time, these images will provide an intimate peek into our subculture and some of the more random curiosities of our times.

Since January 2011, I've selected over a hundred images in a body of work titled 'FastFame'. The title is a nod at the fleeting moments that acts are at their peak popularity; a passing icon in a sea of artistic milestones. It is my intention to recapture these glorious concert days hoping to evoke viewers to recall their own music memories. At the core of this collection are shots taken in the 1980s. It was a dynamic and a fast time.