I have been capturing images for more than 40 years. While I have been encouraged and guided by several artist friends, I am essentially self-taught. My capturing began during my Peace Corps experience in West Africa in the mid-1960's and blossomed during my years in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in the fertile soils of the Pittsburgh Filmmakers Association, one of the premier grassroots artist collectives of its time. In 2003, I decided to re-focus my attention from the social research and program evaluation that had occupied me for nearly 30 years, to my photography.

All of the work on this site is from this later period. The work is rooted in the traditions of street photography as practiced by Atget, Hine, Evans and Catier-Bresson. But, it seeks to take the street experience into the rabbit-hole, as it were, by using the camera instrument to see "beyond" the immediate.

Initially, photography was valued for its ability to make an exact record of the scene toward which it was pointed at the time the medium was exposed to light. As the technology improved and exposure times were reduced, it became increasingly apparent that the camera was capable of recording phenomena not apparent to the eye. Muybridge's 1872 images of a galloping horse confirming Stanford's hypothesis that all four hooves were off the ground at once are perhaps the earliest and most celebrated examples. Subsequently, through the manipulation of light, selective framing and other techniques, photographers have used the camera to reach beyond the limits of the human eye/brain and to display images we take in but do not see.

The documentary aspects of photography thrill me. The snapshots of my family at the beach when I was six settle and warm me. My grandparents wedding photo swirls thoughts and conjecture. The images I capture of folks I meet on the street help deepen and expand my appreciation for the human condition. These images are the ground on which my appreciation of photography walks.

The ability of the camera, enhanced by darkroom or computer-assisted technologies, to look more deeply, to see more expansively, to juxtapose seemingly contradictory scenes. These are the wings on which my passion for photography flies.