Philosophy: Photographs have always been an important part of my life.
                 Common things are key to my personal vision of the world. I want to show my
                  point of view to everyone and change what they see and how they see it.
                    I try and capture the details that people see but perhaps don’t focus on.
                   My 'Lost Soles' exhibit has been a part of that aspiration. We drive by
                  discarded shoes everyday, we may or may not notice them. We may or may
                  not think of why they are where they are. Who wore them and how, over time,
                they return to the earth from which they came. This really fascinates me.
                 Everything has a history, no matter how insignificant.

                 Biography: Born in southern California, the son of two wayward, western
                    Nebraska teenagers. Jay was relocated back to Mitchell, Nebraska where
                     he grew up and graduated high school, before joining the Submarine Navy
                       in 1976. Jay and his wife Nora, daughter Sarah and son Will have lived
                            and traveled extensively throughout the United States and other
                            countries for 25 years before returning to Nebraska in 2006.
                              He is an engineer with a Chicago based company and
                                telecommutes from his Brownville, Nebraska home.