When his daughter Grace was born in 1998, Jim Fossett printed his first photograph of her, sleeping with her feet pulled up, at 11"x17"—thus beginning an "ongoing, informal, family series" he calls "Actual Size." Previous to that, he says, his work was "concerned with objects and a sense of scale, but nothing on a human scale." In Emerson with Rat Tail Spoon, which was shown in Albany Galleries' 2002 silver anniversary show, entitled "Silver," Fossett compares his six-month-old son to a "special silver spoon, in which the spine continues through the shank into the shovel, that's designed for taking the stuffing out of the cavity of a large bird." Most recently, Fossett says he has photographed his own feet, "wearing white athletic socks, with Emerson's red suede toddler shoes on top. My feet are pretty large, so his shoes are well-dwarfed." Fossett runs a photography studio in Ulster County, teaches digital photography and digital video in the Media Arts Department at SUNY New Paltz, and is preparing a new piece for Cave Dogs, a multimedia performance group directed by his wife, Suzanne Stokes. More examples of his work can be seen at www.fossettphoto.com.