About My Work
The focus of my work is primarily aesthetic, which is to say that for me, form and tone and their inter-relationship are more important than representation. For me, a photograph is successful if it shows the person viewing it something they did not already know; something about color or light or one’s place in the world. There are no waterfalls or sunsets in my work because we already know that these things are full of beauty and wonder. You will find clouds and rock formations, ice storms and forests (both terrestrial and aquatic) because they can be full of these things as well.
About Me
I studied photography and printmaking at New York University and during a study abroad program in Provence. After graduating I worked in New York as an assistant to a well-known fashion photographer before opening my own studio on 18th street in Manhattan. When it became clear, after a few years, that the life of a commercial photographer was not for me, I returned to the university to earn a doctorate in psychology and spent twenty years teaching and doing research work with not-for-profit organizations in New York and around the world. Though I continue to teach, I have made art making my primary focus going forward.
