Photography
I took my first photography class at Tufts University merely to fulfill my fine arts requirement. I had no idea how much joy photography would give me for decades to come. After I’d taken all the courses Professor Siegfried Halus offered at Tufts, I transferred into the BFA program at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, where I took classes with Jim Dow, Bill Burke, and Elaine O’Neill, three of my photography heroes.
After working in Boston for Henry Horenstein, a photographer, author, filmmaker, and Rhode Island School of Design professor, I moved to Columbia, Missouri, to attend the graduate program at the University of Missouri School of Journalism. For my professional project, I recruited about 50 undergraduate and graduate students to shoot photos and write accompanying text for a 150-page book called Boonville: Historic Rivertown.
Later photo-related jobs included editing photographs for Agence France-Presse; shooting photos for Museum News magazine; volunteering as an instructor for Shooting Back, a photography program for at-risk teens in Washington, D.C.; and negotiating with museums for the digital rights to images in their collections for Corbis Corporation. I also taught a course for ESOL students in Montgomery County Public Schools called Literacy Through Photography, and I’ve had photos in the Glen Echo Labor Day Art Show in Maryland for several years.
The following pages include some of my recent favorites as well as some oldies from Boston, Maine, Missouri, Brazil, Ecuador, and Israel.
