I worked as a staff photographer for a Legislative Branch government agency based at the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington DC for 28 years. As an institutional photographer for a congressional agency, I photographed a wide array of subject matter, including portraits, events, construction documentation, art preservation, among many others.
Throughout my professional career, I passionately pursued personal work in the form of self-assigned projects. As a student of the history of photography, I sought to emulate those photographers that embraced photography as being, foremost, an act of self-expression. This is work that I produced, in addition to my duties as staff photographer, without any consideration for commercial appeal or interest.
Within this amateur aesthetic realm, I currently spend much of my creative energy engaged in producing themed or conceptually based portraits that, at times, borrow from a kind of classical fashion aesthetic, but are also very much a reflection of ideas, interests, and emotions that are of interest to me and that can be expressed in subtle yet provocative ways.
