After losing my eyesight in one eye when I was 8 years old, I was given a camera by a neighbor who also happened to be an eye doctor. Learning to shoot with that plastic camera helped me to begin on the path I am still on. With a family subscription to Life Magazine and National Geographic, I had the opportunity to see compelling stories talented photographers from around the globe were creating. At 15, I was commissioned for my first commercial job. In my junior year of high school, I took my first photography class and learned the basics of developing film and making B+W prints. After high school, I attended Goddard College in Vermont studying with jeff Weiss, a former student of Minor White. I subsequently transferred to Massachusetts College of Art and Design. I would spend hours, days, weeks, and months in search of elusive images and clarified my sense of what makes a compelling photograph.
After college, I worked as a freelance photographer for editorial publications, advertising agencies, and corporations which enabled me to build a roster of clients and while continuing to explore fine art photography to which I have persisted on doing on a daily basis, some 40 years later.
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