I was born in Michigan in 1954 and have been photographing since presented with a clunky East German camera in 1966. I graduated from Michigan State University (Go GREEN!) in 1976 with a B.S. in computer science.
If one overlooks the nearly thirty years between 1976 and 2003 when I worked in the computer software rat race, started a couple of related businesses, and hardly touched a camera, one could say I've been at it a long, long time.
Between 2003 and 2016, I steadily pursued a life change toward fine art photography. In 2006, I stepped back from the software business that I founded in 1986 and focused on photography full-time.
My first love is street photography, in black and white, using a small, unobtrusive rangefinder camera. People, usually random and anonymous, are essential elements of these photographs. My preferred method is to see and photograph, but not be seen.
My inspiration largely comes from the photographs of Henri Cartier-Bresson, the godfather of street photography; and the American photographers Eli Reed, Elliott Erwitt, Mary Ellen Mark, Lee Friedlander, Richard Kalvar and Garry Winogrand.
Photography projects have included a book of street photography entitled "FAIR WITNESS: Street Photography for the 21st Century" released in March 2015, a street portrait series called "LOOK At Me", a photo essay on the war ravaged Croatian city of Vukovar, and a journal of European pissiors which became my book entitled "PISS".
