William Ropp summons up a strange and haunting world through the lens of his art,

but it is not an altogether unfamiliar one is spite of his showing us people and things we have never before seen.

It is unsettling and disturbing, yet it is also attracts and compels us because it is beautiful , erotic, and often frightening.

His work is rich with the thrill of beauty, sex, and fear, these of humanity"s most powerful drugs.

But those narcotics alone are not what we sense in Ropp's art as familiar.

They are only the outer cloaks, the flesh of something else we know far more intimately

John Wood is a well-known photographic critic

He has published and edited over thirty books and written the introductions to more than twenty others

on photographers as diverse as Joel-Peter Witkin, Sally Mann, Masao Yamamoto, Jan Saudek,

Arthur Tress, Luis Gonzáles Palma, ETC