I took my first photograph in 1959 at the age of 6 with a pinhole camera I made with my uncle from a Savarin coffee can. We developed and printed in his basement darkroom. As an adult, I used Olympus film cameras for years, but my personal photography took a back seat to a career in the for-profit and nonprofit sectors, to a much-loved family, and to pressing community needs. I purchased an iPhone 8 in 2014, an Olympus digital camera in 2017, and an iPhone XS in 2018. But I did not focus time and attention on my creative image making until retiring in 2021. I now shoot with an iPhone 13 Pro Max and edit with Apple’s Photos app. I appreciate the power of digital tools to help overcome my lifelong but only recently diagnosed ADD challenges associated with cataloging and retrieving such physical objects as negatives, slides, contact sheets and prints. Past juried photos include an image published in American Photographer in 1980 and photos selected for group shows of Maine artists at RiverArts Gallery in Damariscotta and at the Harlow Gallery in Hallowell.
In the past few years, after my first-ever solo show in 2023 titled The Shape of Things, I have had three pieces of work selected for a UMVA juried group show in 2025 at Waterfall Arts titled Dark Skies. Two newer pieces were recently selected for a UMVA juried group show in Camden ME in May 2026 titled It’s the Small Things. Other work can be seen year-round in rotation with photos from five other photographers in the local “Zoom Group” in Waldo County ME at a Belfast restaurant called Bell the Cat. I am working on two other shows for 4Q2026 (with another photographer who a curator for that space decided would be an excellent complementary exhibitor) and a possible solo show early 2027. It has been an exciting few years since I made a firm commitment of my time and attention to the processes of photographic image making at the age of 70.
