I am the author of four books of my photography: "Bearing Witness (to AIDS)"; "HARD BOYS + BAD GIRLS"; Amazing Grace; and most recently, "Vital Signs", which with my co-author poet Juan Delgado, won an American Book Award in 2014.
My photographs have been in many solo and group exhibitions and are in the permanent collections of ICP; CMP; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Library of Congress and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture among other.
I worked as an editorial photographer in New York City from 1988 to 1995 and was the Photo Editor of the Village Voice from 1992 to 1994, where I founded the Voice Photo Grant.
In 2011 I founded Dotphotozine to showcase the work done by my current and former students, and in 2014 I founded the Dotphotozine Award for Excellence in Photography.
I live in Yucaipa, California, where I am a working artists and retired professor from California State University, San Bernardino.
