About

I grew up in Tempe and have spent most of my life in Arizona. I taught high school English for 30 years, but not until I worked as a museum educator in Washington, DC, did I begin to learn photography. In preparation for an assignment in Rwanda in 2012, our photography staff, which included the photographer Arnold Kramer, gave me a Canon Mark V and told me to shoot, shoot, and shoot some more. Since I’d never used a digital camera, much less a beast like the Mark V, I had to learn on the fly and learn by doing. Upon returning, two of my images were selected to grace the front and back covers of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum’s annual report, and my colleagues continued to mentor me along my photographic journey. I’ve been fortunate enough to travel the world with my camera. Now retired, I spend time rediscovering the desert I loved as a young man, never tired of its harsh and subtle beauty. 

The camera is my interpreter, the means by which I make sense of the visual world. Sometimes the photos spark a conversation, other times a story or a memory, and sometimes they open a door, inviting the viewer to see what I saw and feel what I felt at the moment I pressed the shutter button. 

I am a member of the Arizona Photography Alliance, and my work has been shown at Shemer Art Center (Scottsdale, Arizona), Decode Gallery (Tucson, Arizona), and Art Intersection (Gilbert, Arizona). In addition, my photographs have been published in The CEA Critic.

My goal for this website is simple: to share what I’ve seen, what I love, and what’s next. Please contact me for more information about my work.