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I knew 35 years ago that I would be a photographer. Photography has always been my primary artistic and creative outlet. The Ocean City Sentential Ledger was where I started my career at the age of 17. I went on to receive a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree at the Rhode Island School of Design, where I was very lucky to learn photography in the analog days of film and chemicals and fine printing in the darkroom. Shooting with an 8”x10” and developing one frame at a time forces one to pay careful attention to the frame. In New York City for 6 years, I assisted photographers Sepp Seitz, a corporate and studio photographer, Mike Yamashita, who shoots for the National Geographic Magazine, and fine art photographer Larry Fink. I worked in studios like the Polaroid 20”x 24” studio and on locations around the world. I was immersed into the digital world early on. In the early 90’s I worked on Maya Quest, an interactive expedition to Central America. We invented an early form of virtual reality, mapped Mayan ruins, sent photographs, video, and stories via satellite back to, and at the direction of, 2000 elementary schools in the United States. I started teaching at Lehigh University in 1985 and did so for 20 years. While there, I developed curriculum for classes such as Photoshop, the history of photography, photo 1 & 2, and mixed media photography. As a “Professor of Practice” I was free to peruse my Photographic career while teaching several classes per semester. For the past 20 years, I’ve been exploring the music world, shooting as staff photographer for such live events as the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, Essence Music Festival, Bonaroo, and the Newport Jazz, Folk, and Blues festivals. I post these images to Getty Images. Over the last few years, I’ve re-designed and renovated an old (1768) farm house and barn into a home and studio. With a windmill for electricity and passive solar heating design we are 90% carbon neutral. The addition of some Photo Voltaic cells will bring us to 100%. I am currently looking for studio work, wedding clients, more music venues and architectural photography.
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