My passion for photography began when I received a 110-format film camera on my fifth birthday. My earliest snapshots feature family members, our house in Sydney, Australia, and the many kookaburras and other colorful birds that visited our backyard. I filled dozens of film cartridges at a nearby animal preserve, home to kangaroos, wallabies, emus, platypi, dingoes, and the occasional lion. A year later, my family moved to Japan, where I discovered a dense and vibrant urban environment. My new photographs featured festivals with people in traditional dress, ancient temples, and many snapshots of my grade school buddies. Then, five years later, in my early teens, our family moved to a suburban commuter town in New Jersey, about an hour by train from Manhattan.
Looking at my earliest photographs amuses and fascinates me. While my technical skills have vastly improved and my ability to capture nuance and detail has sharpened, the aesthetics of my photography have largly remained consistent across the decades.
Today, I make photographs primarily in 35mm digital and color slide film. My photography covers several genres, including documentary, portraiture, travel, and fine art. I have been extremely fortunate to have photographed on every continent except Antarctica.
In 2019, I began completing "Noctis," a years-long night photography project. Working with slide film and some digital capture, this project features landscape photographs from locations in the US and Europe.
In addition to social media posting of snapshots taken with my camera phone, I occasionally submit my work to juried competitions. Past exhibits include at the Cambridge Art Association's New England show and the International Juried Show at the Visual Arts Center of New Jersey.