Trained as a painter/printmaker at The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and The Philadelphia College of Art.....But fell in with a rebel band of photographers, shooting fashion/advertising and rock bands. Then on a dare, accepted positions at 3 big city hospitals where everything from pathological specimens to surgical procedures and textbooks were given the Eisman treatment. That lasted about 9 years morphing into a position of Media Director for an NGO working in 5 third world countries. The 'adventure years' saw the production of a feature length music video in the Congo during the civil war, and many many other exciting projects of a photo-philanthropic nature. Retirement from a schedule has allowed art to happen..It continues today.

I learned in art school that it was virtually impossible to draw something from life that was a true and accurate representation. I wrestled with that for a few years until i discovered the camera. Now I try to make my accurate images look more like paintings!! I have endeavored to pay homage to an artistic paradigm in everything i shoot...be it a fatty liver for a Hepatologist doing clinical research or a headshot for an aspiring actor anticipating a big audition. The world is my canvas and i refuse to 'specialise' as so many shooters have been forced to do. My interests are wide ranging and highly eclectic. I shun boundaries and limitations. I shoot what interests me now. I love the new technology and am always experimenting, pushing the envelope...yet my work is conservative in its adherence to the basic rules of composition...classical training shows! I think i am most intrigued by the human body...faces, in particular fascinate me and i can honestly say that obsession has governed many of my life's directions. I guess i fit the criteria of a 'Portrait Artist" but i like to think my work transcends the basic portrait. I seek to establish a connection with my sitter. It's important to me to know as much about the person before me as they are willing to reveal. I was never particularly interested in showing my work, as few among us consider a gallbladder or a photomicrograph, frame-worthy. I am now rethinking everything, but faces and their owners, get my creative juices flowing. I hope to promulgate that mindset in a project i am currently getting off the ground.

1972 ASMP ( American Society of Media Photographers) Group Show Philadelphia
1987 Group Show ASMP South Florida
1988 Participant, Picture South Florida, Sunrise to Sunrise...Travellng Exhibition.
2016 Walt Girdner Gallery Pasadena, One Man Show
2017 Walt Girdner Gallery Pasadena, One Man Show.

Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art : BFA program University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia College of Art...( Formerly The Museum School of The Philadelphia Museum of Art. Now The University of the Arts.)

A few Art Director's Club awards ... Philadelphia and New York City
Finalist in DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY PRO Magazine's FACE competition.