I have entertained a life-long passion for photography that began when my great grandfather showed me how to operate his camera when I was just eleven years old. He would show me portraits he had taken of family members long ago and I became infatuated with the ability of the camera to capture stories, to ask questions and reveal truths.

While life took me in many other directions, my passion for photography remained. I maintained an active interest in photography throughout my career as a professional dancer, choreographer and executive director of dance companies and arts organizations in New York State and Boston.  

In the fall of 2004, I made the life-changing decision to leave my job as the CEO of Springstep Center for Traditional and Contemporary Arts in Boston in order to pursue photography on a professional level..

In 2005, I created an opportunity to spend five months photographing and producing writings on the life and workings of a small fishing village in Mexico called Yelapa.   This unique village has no roads and is accessible only by boat.   The closest city is Puerto Vallarta which is a 45 minute boat ride up the coast.

Because the village has no roads and only acquired electricity in recent years, it has retained a simplicity and charm that is reminiscent of a time past.   A sampling of my writings and photographic work on this village can be seen at a link provided in this website under the links section.

After returning from Mexico in May of 2005, I moved to Taos, New Mexico, where I maintained a studio and produced several new series of abstract works that explore ideas of surface, texture, color, light and composition from an abstract expressionist viewpoint. In addition to two special exhibits at the Stables Gallery and participation in a number of juried fine art shows, my work was represented by the Open Space Gallery and Rane Gallery in Taos.

Beginning in January of 2007, I returned to Yelapa, Mexico for three months to continue work on a digital photographic essay of the village. My work in Yelapa continues and is ongoing. I returned again in December 07, primarily to deliver Christmas gifts of framed portraits to many of the families whose children I had photographed in the past. What a pleasure to see their eyes light up when they recieved them.

I have returned annually since then to document changes in this rapidly changing village.

Since 2007 I relocated back to the east coast spenidng three years in Boston before relocating to a gorgeous spot on Cayuga Lake in Ithaca, New York in the summer of 2009.

I continue working on new photographic projects, experimental printing processes and new mixed media work that combines digital photography with traditional art materials and processes.