ABOUT

I don’t know exactly when my parents gave me my first camera, a Brownie, Eastman Kodak’s ubiquitous starter camera. All I know is that I cannot remember a time when I was not taking pictures. 

 

My first pictures were of my family, our dogs and the kids I played with. In time, I became a street photographer, taking photos of pedestrians on Brooklyn’s busy streets and passengers on the trolley cars that I rode to high school. 

 

When I was seventeen, my grandmother took me to Europe and my passion for photography merged with what became a life long love of traveling.

 

I bought my first Nikon film camera in my twenties. Later, I converted a bathroom in my New York apartment into a darkroom and began taking evening classes at the International Center for Photography (ICP). I  stopped using film in 2007 after purchasing my first digital camera, also a Nikon. 

 

I also attended lectures at ICP where prominent photographers discussed their own work as well as the work of the great photographers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

 

I have focused on photographing landscapes and people in public places, often when I traveled abroad, but also in Maine where I summer and in Washington, DC, where I have lived for several decades.

 

Inspired by Edward Weston’s still lifes, I took up still life photography during the Covid lockdown so that I could shoot indoors yet use natural window light. 

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My photographs are in private collections and in the Camino Silvestre Galleries in San Miguel de Allende.   

 

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