Who is Geofo Anyway?

Like so much of my lens work, I try to add my own unique twist on life. As a young man, picking up a camera for the first time, in his early twenties. I knew that this contraption was the most fascinating tool that I had ever owned. The visual language that I have mentioned, was born. Coddling this new enigma of mine, I knew that it needed a name. Jeffrey is a great name, which I cherish the thought of my parents as they decided who I should be known as. Still it just didn’t sound like an artist’s name. The name Geofo was suggested to me by a very dear and regrettably failed relationship that I was in at the time. She suggested that the name would be pronounced Jeff O. Yet have more of a European flair to it. I wasn’t convinced so I held it in reservation of coming off sounding to obscure. After tragically losing my sister in 1992, I found myself thinking of the name once again. My sister’s name was Janet, but most of her friends called her Jan O. I also recalled a fond memory of my grandmother telling that my name could also be spelled as Geoffrey, as she greeted me as Sir Geoffrey. So as it was and as it has come to be, three very influential relationships came, together to give me another way of looking at my world from a unique perspective. I use this name as an expression of my love for them, on any of my artistic endeavors. I doubt that it will ever have any impact on the rest of the world, but just signing it to a piece, has a huge impact for me.