Biography
I’ve had portrait sittings with Jacques Chirac, François Mitterrand, Andy Warhol, Saul Bellow, Phillip Starck as well as many other luminaries, aristocrats, designers, artists, art dealers, café proprietors and other boulevard-types.
After beginning my career as one of the original Soho loft dwellers in the seventies, I moved to Paris, where I taught photography (in French) at the American Center on the Boulevard Raspail.
My work has been exhibited and purchased by the Museum of Modern Art in New York, The Centre Georges Pompidou and The Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris and The Museum Boymans van Beuningen in Rotterdam.
Upon my return to New York in 1986, I also began painting, and continued traveling -- from Dumbo, Brooklyn to Zimbabwe, South Africa and throughout Italy. I have received accolades for both my photographs and paintings.
I am currently assembling a legacy project book to include my memories and photographic portraits. It is called The Face of Soho Once Upon a Time and after resisting digital photography, I'm drawn back to photography -- my first love with a continuing series called My Left Thumb.
