I often wonder if a love of photography is genetic.  Playful  images taken by both sides of my family go back to the 1850s.  My own love of taking pictures began as a boy when I would spend evenings with my father in his darkroom.  The magic of a print appearing in an amber lit tray still fascinates me.  In college I spent my last $ 150 on a used Canon FTb and 5 rolls of Kodachrome and I have never stopped shooting.  After graduating from the University of Virginia with a fine art degree I had the good fortune to be taken under the wing of a freelance photographer who drove a sports car, lived in a cottage by the river, had a pretty girlfriend and made a living with his camera.  It was a lifestyle that I saw the merits of immediately and I have never regretted my choice to have a professional life based in creativity and independence.

My first assignments in the highly creative, advertising  town of Richmond, VA taught me that I could have a great time taking photographs and people would actually pay me to do it!

Ten years of shooting advertising and annual reports in New York City honed my lighting skills and allowed me to compete for assignments (and taxis) in the most competitive market on the planet.

Fifteen years in the Hudson Highlands showed me that it was possible to have a great “on location” career, an international stock photography business and a family anywhere I wanted.

And now life in the Berkshires of Massachusetts is offering up more culture than I can possibly take advantage of and clients that hire me to do what I have always done best.  They ask me to come to their location and “find” the images that will tell the story of who they are.  There are no layouts, only opportunities.  So you see, I did choose wisely.

Some Current and Memorable Clients

American Express, AT&T, Bank of America, Bath and Body Works, Berkshire Life Insurance, Blue Cross and Blue Shield, Carter’s Retail, CenturyLink, Charles Schwab, Citibank, Coldwater Creek, Dow Corning, Ernst & Young, Entergy, Fidelity Investments, Fleet Bank, Hallmark, IBM, Infiniti, Ingersoll Rand, Major League Baseball, Marketplace Development, MBNA Bank, McDonalds, Merrill Lynch, Metropolitan Life, Monsanto, Mutual of America, New Alliance Bank, NY Life,  Norfolk Southern Railroad,  Novartis, Oshkosh, Paine Webber, Pfizer, Polaroid, Port Authority of NY & NJ, Prime Outlets, Procter & Gamble, Prudential Life, Robert K. Futterman, Sampco Brilliant, Scherring Plough, Smith Barney, The Territory Ahead, Tylenol, The Wall Street Journal, etc.

Air France, American Airlines, AVIS, Berkshire Health Systems, British Airways, Circle Line,  Hertz, Holiday Inn, Marriot, New Jersey Economic Development, NYC Economic Development, New York State Economic Development, New York Cruise Lines, Virginia Tourism, Unistress, Westin Hotels, etc.

Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Bard College, Bennington College, Hofstra University, Mount Ida College, Northwestern University, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Union Graduate College, University at Albany, University of Virginia, Williams College, etc.

Addison Wesley Publishing, Berkshire Business Quarterly, Berkshire Living Magazine, Better Homes & Gardens, Child Magazine, Coast to Coast, Delta Sky, Discover, Disney, Edutopia, Family Circle, Guideposts, Ladies Home Journal, Michelin Travel Guides, National Geographic, NY Times Travel Publications, Outdoors, NYU Magazine, Prevention, Scientific American, Travel Holiday, U.S. News and World Report, Washingtonian, etc.

 

Awards

Communication Arts Photography Award of Excellence (12 Awards)

Graphis Photography Annual Award (4)

New York Art Director’s Club Award of Excellence (2)

International Black & White Spider Award (6)

APA /NY Award (5)

Kodak Prisma Award (2)

 

Exhibits

The Fidelity Investments  Gallery space in Boston, MA   Concepts of Time  (Solo Show)

Ferrin Gallery, Pittsfield, MA,  WOMEN: Portait+ Figure (Group Show)

Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, MA (The Photographers of Berkshire Living)

Open Studio, Lenox, MA (Nine solo shows… because I could)

Kodak Hall of Images, Epcot Center, Orlando FL. (Two group shows).

Nikon House at Rockefeller Center, New York, NY. (Four group shows).

Duggal Color Projects, New York, NY  (Two group shows ).

Jacob Javits Center, New York, NY (Group show).

Garrison Art Center, Garrison on Hudson, NY   (Solo show).

McGuffey Art Center, Charlottesville, VA.  (My First Solo show).

 

Books Published

Private Moments, (Manhattan as a city of private moments, not private places).

Extraordinary New Jersey

Silent Moments, (Images of winter)

Man Made, (Images of Industrial Light)