About Lance
I have been teaching photography since 1997, at the New England School of Photography, the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, as well as leading night photography workshops across the U.S. Since 2005, I have been the curator at Harvard University's Three Columns Gallery.
My interest in Night Photography dates back to 1984 when I was first introduced to the camera. My earliest pictures were experimental in nature. Multiple exposures, long exposures, and light painting with a flashlight all intensified my interest in the possibilities photography had to offer. In 1989, I moved to San Francisco to study with Steve Harper at the Academy of Art University.
As a teacher and commercial photographer, I work with digital cameras and technology on a daily basis, but I prefer working with film and gelatin silver paper in the traditional darkroom for most of my personal work.
I do take advantage of digital printmaking to create carbon pigment Piezo prints in sizes up to 40x60 inches, and light jet prints for my occasional color work. I use and recommend Still River Editions for Piezo prints and Autumn Color for Lightjet prints. Paul Sneyd at Panopticon Imaging is an excellent printer, and when I need silver prints larger than I can print in my own darkroom, he's the one I turn to.
Panopticon provides a full range of traditional and digital B&W photographic services.After working with a number of different medium and large format cameras, I finally settled on an Ebony SW23 view camera for most of my work. It is light and compact, solidly built, and a work of art in itself. Ebony is a very small Japanese company that builds each camera by hand, often to order. I highly recommend their cameras. My digital work is done with Canon cameras and printers.
I hope you enjoy the photographs on this website, but encourage you to see original prints if you have the opportunity. I welcome questions and comments, and respond to all as time permits.