About

I have been a documentary photographer for over 30 years.

My passion for photography began with photographing tourist attractions in my town. The first workshop I took was in the 70's with Ansel Adams and Yousuf Karsh. Working for various newspapers, I used my press pass and photographed Joan Baez, Kenny Loggins, Bonnie Raitt, Bob Marley, and many others backstage performing at the local arena.

I was also blessed to have traveled extensively, hired by various Airlines and sent to many countries around the world.

Strangers on the street mesmerize me. My eye scours for subjects separating them from the crowds, while drawn to the simplicity of space that surrounds them. Emotions also play a pivotal part, capturing one's private moments of stories untold. Creating art on the street fuels my heart.

Although various methods are used in shooting street photography, being unnoticed has been my preference, whereby not altering the natural flow. Although I often have contact with my subjects, the dynamics change as "posing" for the camera becomes the norm once subjects are engaged in conversation. For my own work as well as with teaching, capturing that split second, fleeting moment of time creates a more genuine outcome (perfectly described by Henri Cartier-Bresson): "A great photograph has a musical feel, and a single photograph tells lots of stories and can transfix a moment in time's flow. You just have to live and life will give you pictures."

I've taught compositional skills to every age level for the last 12 years. Sundays in NY, a street photography workshop brings participants on inspiring excursions on the streets of NY. Suggestions, tips & feedback are offered as participants click the shutter, improving their photographic eye. I have written a number of articles on composition, simplicity, self-editing, judging, critiquing, "how to see," and also co-founder of photoworkshop.com, the first online educational photographic website.