I have had the honer of my artwork being showcase in a few books.

Published by Modernbook Editions 2012.

The McCloud River by John Rickard, documents John’s deep personal connection and relationship between man and wild. For over a decade he has been compiling a collection of photographs that form a narrative of this majestic place

Hard-bound, 10×12 inches, 50 duotone plates,112 pages. 

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Publication Date: December 3, 2008 | ISBN-10: 0240810139 | ISBN-13: 978-0240810133 | Edition: 3

Photographic Possibilities, Third Edition is a marvelously updated resource of innovative and traditional photographic processes that imagemakers have come to trust and depend on to enhance their technical knowledge, create astonishing pictures, and raise their visual consciousness. 

This concise and reliable handbook provides professional and advanced photography students with practical pathways of utilizing diverse photographic methods to produce engaging, expressive pictures from an informed aesthetic and conceptual position. 

This update, in full color for this first time, offers new links between analog and digital photography by featuring clear, up-to-date, step-by-step instructions on topics ranging from making ambrotypes and digital negatives to pre-picturemaking activities that utilize a thinking system to visually realize what is in your mind’s eye in an effective and safe manner.

This edition vividly showcases the thought-provoking work of over 140 international artists including Peter Beard, Dan Burkholder, Carl Chiarenza, Michael Kenna, Dinh Q. Lê, Joe Mills, Andrea Modica, Bea Nettles, France Scully and Mark Osterman, Robert & Shana ParkeHarrison, Holly Roberts, Martha Rosler, Mike and Doug Starn, John Sexton, Brian Taylor, Jerry Uelsmann, and Joel Peter Witkin as well as other major and emerging talents. Image captions explain how each artist technically realized their vision and concept.

All technical information and resources have been refreshed to provide the latest data for acquiring the products needed for these processes. Above all, this comprehensive reference provides field-proven know-how, encouragement, inspiration, and a profuse compendium of promising photo-based explorations one can discover and pursue.

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RayKo’s Second Annual Juried Plastic Camera Show includes strange and stunning images made by the winners of this competition. Photographers from all over the Bay Area as well as national and international entries are featured in this dynamic exhibit. There were over 400 submissions for the exhibition, so it was difficult to whittle the acceptances down to 150 artists. Also highlighted in this exhibition is the work of 3 California artists who have been pursuing plastic camera imagery for nearly 30 years: Roy Berkowitz, Michael Emery, and Aline Smithson, each of them stumbling upon the plastic camera as a tool when they were just beginning their photographic careers.