About

Rick's first memory of photography was in his grandfather: Kenneth Charles Merrick's basement where a dark room was set up and being used by his grandfather and father, Richard Kenneth Merrick.

Rick grew up watching and learning from a family heritage of photography and by the young age of nine Rick was making his own prints in the darkroom. Rick enjoyed working with "dying mediums" like high silver content papers and pyro.

Today, Rick describes his passion for photography as, "still holding some magic. That it's capturing so much of someone in such a brief moment of time, a sixtieth of a second." Rick describes working with people as "helping people find a comfortable, natural state... nothing posed or awkward. I encourage them to relax and just be who they are."