As a young boy, I snapped photos with my father’s Kodak Instamatic and Polaroid Land cameras and then purchased my first 35mm camera as a freshman in college. Eager to express myself visually, I photographed campus politics and life on the streets.
As a high school teacher in the Hudson Valley of New York, I walked the streets of Manhattan on the weekends, recording both the people and urban landscapes of the city. What caught my eye then (and still does now) were the vibrancy of human activity and the quiet of architectural spaces. Wanting more formal training, I studied at the School of Visual Arts in NYC and The Center for Photography at Woodstock, NY, both of which honed my skills and deepened my appreciation for my first influences, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Elliot Erwitt, Joel Meyerowitz, Diane Arbus, Bruce Davidson and Robert Doisneau.
Today, everyone has a camera and everyone is a photographer. Nevertheless, (to paraphrase the actor Val Kilmer) if a photographer is fortunate enough to do so, to steer their own course and own their unique way of seeing, they control their own destiny, creating their own visual power.
Although I do shoot a bit of the natural world, I remain true to my first vision from the playground, observing and shooting the streets, looking for the odd, the quirky, and sometimes the quiet in everyday life, creating mostly black and white photographs but also dabbling in color when the image is “about” the color.
My work has been exhibited in the Hudson Valley of New York, Providence, Rhode Island, Vienna, Virginia, Key West, Florida, Brooklyn, NY, Kokomo, Indiana, and throughout the Triangle area of North Carolina. My photographs are in private coIlections in Miami, FL, Brooklyn, NY, and Vienna, Austria.
In addition to exhibiting my work, I make presentations to photography groups on topics related to photographic subjects and offer individual photographic education.
Achievements and Exhibits:
“Harmony” First Place, B&W: Annual Juried Photography Exhibit Cary Photographic Artists, Cary Senior Center, Cary NC 2021
First Place: “Lady in Red” Time Zero and Beyond, Rhode Island Center for Photographic Arts 2019
Second Place “Hands”: Annual Juried Photography Exhibit, Cary Photographic Artists, Cary Senior Center, Cary NC 2017
Third Place “Exposed Nudes in Art” Juried Show, Litmus Gallery, Raleigh, NC
Best in Show “NYC Trumpet Player”: Combined Arts Exhibit, IBM Boca Raton, FL 1982
Third Place “The Subway”: The School of Visual Arts Student Gallery Exhibit, New York, NY 1978
Solo Exhibit Poughkeepsie City Hall, Poughkeepsie, NY 1978
Solo Exhibit “Canvassing: The Oddities & Quirks of Everyday Life” Seaboard Wine Gallery, Raleigh, NC 2016
Solo Exhibit 2018, Chef’s Palette Gallery, Cary NC
Solo Exhibit: “Polaroids”, Cary Arts Center, Cary NC 2002
Sci-Fi Cities & Pinhole Obscura Images exhibit Page Walker Gallery, Cary, NC 2022
“Hudson Valley Challenges” The Catskill Center of Photography, Woodstock, NY 1979
Barrett House, Dutchess County Art Association Annual Juried Show Poughkeepsie NY 1980
Annual Juried Photography Exhibit Cary Photographic Artists, Cary Senior Center, Cary NC 2015
Capital City Camera Club Annual Photography Exhibits: City of Raleigh Museum, Raleigh, NC 2015-17
“A Sense of… Space” Roundabout Art Collective, Raleigh, NC 2016
“Grossman Memorial Exhibit Open Show 2016 ” Through This Lens Gallery, Durham NC
“Canvassing the Kitchen” Solo Show Fiction Kitchen Gallery, Raleigh, NC 2016
Annual Juried Photography Exhibit Cary Photographic Artists, Cary Senior Center, Cary NC 2016
“The Value of Aging” Juried Exhibit, Cary NC 2017
“In the Footsteps of Federico Fellini - The Surreal” Durham Arts Council, Durham NC 2017
“A Sense of John Lennon’s Lucy in the Sky” Seaboard Wine Gallery, Raleigh NC 2017
“About Face - Three Artists, Three Visions” Seaboard Wine Gallery, Raleigh, NC 2017
“Unseen: Photography Beyond The Visible Juried Show” Providence Center for Photographic Artists, Providence, RI 2017
“Grossman Memorial Exhibit Open Show” Through This Lens Gallery, Durham NC 2017
“Petcasso 2017” Juried Show, Litmus Gallery, Raleigh, NC2017
“Abtracts Matter 2017 ” Juried Show, Litmus Gallery, Raleigh, NC 2017
“Anything Goes 2018” Juried Show, Litmus Gallery, Raleigh NY 2018
“In the Footsteps of Marcel Duchamp” Halle Cultural Arts Center, Apex NC 2018
“Less Than A Thousand Words”, Through This Lens Gallery, Durham NC 2018
“Gardens and Flowers” Juried Show 2018, 311 Gallery, Raleigh, NC
“Grossman Memorial Exhibit Open Show 2018 ” Through This Lens Gallery, Durham NC “Nudes in Art 2018” Juried Show, Litmus Gallery, Raleigh, NC
“Black and White” Juried Show 2018, 311 Gallery, Raleigh, NC
“The Doors of New Orleans” 2019 Naomi Studio and Gallery, Durham, NC
“The Fence” Click! Photography Festival NC Triangle 2021
“A Sense of Time: New York City: Then and Now” Cary NC 2022
