It is always an honor to be juried as a solo artist, and this is a return engagement with new images of my night lighthouse photography. In 2018, the work had been selected to hang in the Philip Hulitar Hospice for several months and it was about five years into a personal project called Stars & Lights. Much of my free time was spent photographing local lighthouses when they do most of their work—at night. Few lighthouses had ever been photographed at night; an irony not lost on the United States Lighthouse Society. At the same time as the works were being displayed, the Society adopted the project, and it was renamed USA Stars & Lights to reflect its national prominence. I’ve since been traveling from my North Kingstown home throughout the country photographically documenting our nation’s historic lighthouses during nighttime to remedy this oversight of nearly 200 years of photography. Much of the time the project’s task is gaining access to sometimes dangerous properties, with most lighthouses no longer under United States Coast Guard jurisdiction. Many are now owned by local or state governments, private foundations, or private individuals. Many owners are thrilled to have their lighthouse added to the Society’s historically significant collection. 

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