For me, for a long, long time, color photography has meant commercial photography. I shoot in color for commercial projects, and always have, both on film and digitally. For many years, I made personal photographs strictly using black-and-white film. You could say, I chose to see in black-and-white. It looks more artistic, I thought. Only in the last few years have I broadened my view. If used carefully, color photography can be the basis for beautiful art.

All these pictures were made on film. They date as far back as 1990 and as recently as 2012. Only pictures of my friends and family are more personal than these to me.

Collage is a recent exploration I have begun with my art. In this group of six, I have made prints  from my own photographs to cut up and re-assemble. The photographs  were taken on Cape Cod in Massachusetts, the originals are inkjet prints.

These photographs originated as 35mm and 120mm size negatives. I made gelatin silver prints from the negatives for the most part at the time that the film was exposed; some prints were made later. In this album and throughout the website are samples from three decades of work in black-and-white photography.

The pictures in this group were made in Santa Fe, N.M., when I lived there in 1991 - 1993. Coming from Brooklyn, N.Y., the beauty of Santa Fe inspired me to make photographs unlike and better than any I had made before. I walked by night after the streets had cooled and the stores had closed, making long exposures with a Hasselblad camera, using streetlamps to light the way.