On a visual level, my earliest influences were painters rather than photographers. My first awareness was of Picasso, Rubens, El Greco, O’Keeffe, Escher, Goya and Vermeer, The Masters, all different but similar in that they used light and texture to create a new system of esthetics. Photographer awareness came to me later. They were Adams, Modotti, Muybridge, Lang, Strand, Frank, Brassaï, Mapplethorpe, and especially Cartier-Bresson. As artists of the past have done, I took Styrous® as my “pen name” over 15 years ago. When I photograph something or someone, I see a complete picture or painting through my viewfinder. I compose and structure at the moment of the shot. I do not crop or alter my images after the shoot. The printed photograph is what I saw at the time the image was taken, always with the light available at that moment.
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