pawindell-photos

I have been capturing images for nearly fifty years, beginning with my time in West Africa with the Peace Corps. I became enthralled with the process of focusing light and fixing images on light-sensitive materials; of "capturing the moment." Largely...

I have been capturing images for nearly fifty years, beginning with my time in West Africa with the Peace Corps. I became enthralled with the process of focusing light and fixing images on light-sensitive materials; of "capturing the moment." Largely self-taught, I have received guidance from a number of artist friends and I have studied the work of some of the great photographers, with particular attention to the great street photographers (Atget, Brassai, Brandt, Cartier-Bresson, Evans, Hine, Koudelko, Lang, Smith and Winogrand) and art photographers (Steiglitz, Steichen) and the documentary work produced under Roy Stryker at the Farm Security Administration and the documentation of Pittsburgh's Renaissance in the 1950's.