The "Blue Collar" Documentary Series

This documentary series reflects on a diminishing sector of the industrial age, the blue collar worker. The photographs portray a metal spinner making a part at the American Aluminum Company in Mountainside, New Jersey. The series shows the human element, heat, muscle power and tactile experience, required to craft a metal part. In todayÍs service-based economy, much of the labor base is being transferred to the Third World. The intent of this project is to preserve and document a single American craftsmanÍs work through imagery.

The series is scanned into a computer, cropped, color corrected, and printed on 22" X 30" Archers Cover 100% rag paper with a large format ink jet printer (Gicleé).