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I grew up in a house without a TV. My window on the world was Life Magazine. It was the photographs, taken by many of the best photographers in the world at the time, that captured my imagination. I received my BFA from Boston University and went on to study at the Germain School of Photography in NY. Shortly thereafter, my camera and I became one. I began by documenting the mass gatherings in Central Park in the 1970s, eventually moved into portrait and theater production photography. During the last several years I have returned to documentary, as well as landscape work. I’m drawn to quiet theatrical moments. My photographs attempt to tell a story, whether the focus is on people or nature. The subject can be a person in the street, or a boat on the beach. Even in nature photography, there is something that evokes an emotion or a memory. Most of my recent work is in black and white. For me there is something mysterious, sensual and engaging about a black and white photograph. That is why, more often than not, I prefer it over color. Photographer Dominic Rouse, puts it well, “Color is everything, black and white is more.”