About the Artist

It wasn't until I was 50 that I took up photography again. Having majored in studio art, with photography as my focus, I had let all that slide mostly because at that point in my 20's I did not have the confidence to do art without the structure of a class. Computer programming became my career, which I did enjoy. Having done that also serves me well now as I am very comfortable with technology.

After 9-11 I took a little 4-week class on using the Holga camera, of which I had never heard. My career took off quickly, and for awhile there was no day that went by that I was not exhibiting somewhere. I'm still mostly known for the style that became known as 'Holgaramas'... panoramas of sorts... shot with this silly plastic film camera called the Holga. The technique involves only partially advancing the film while shooting, so that the exposures overlap and one "image" is made up of many shots taking up half a roll of film. My method of shooting was very fast and spontaneous, but the images took a lot of post-production (i.e. work in Photoshop) to get the tonality to even out.

After that point I went entirely digital and my next series were motion shots of people walking. For many of these I was sitting on the ground with a tiny tripod and doing long exposures that would have some parts of the image in focus and other parts blurred. Both these and the Holga work were mostly about movement.

For awhile now, my primary subject matter has been stuff I find on the ground, lately in the form of diptychs and triptychs. I live in the East Village of New York City, which is a neighborhood largely gentrified now, but which still has a lot more trash than other neighborhoods. Yes, a lot of my pictures are of trash, or tiny little discarded things, and of spills that can make great abstractions (all of my work has been at least somewhat abstract in nature). I'm pretty democratic in the objects I'm drawn to photograph... meaning almost nothing is ruled out. I somehow find art in the detritus and whatever I stumble upon on the street. So you can say I'm a street photographer... literally!

Have fun looking through all the strange things I find worthy of being photographed and know that I do think these unlikely things are beautiful, maybe you will too.