New England, born and raised. Though I have lived in California for all of my adult life, you cannot take the New Englander out of me. It follows me. I'm determinedly independent, critically frugal, I don't take myself too seriously and yes, sarcasm slides in as an icebreaker. I make images that are real, that show a connection, that make you feel.
Photography entered my life at RISD, an extra course while I was at Brown studying Psychology and Comparative Literature with French. The photography courses at the Rhode Island School of Design reinvigorated my artistic side that STEM classes had hidden for a decade. And though I worked on locked psychiatric wards while in college, it was the time in the darkroom that I came to love. I became passionate about the medium, but my academic background stayed with me - psychology taught me to connect with people, to notice things they do or say, and to find a way put them at ease. And, Comparative Literature, it's all about stories - a multi-disciplinary look at a theme. Decades of images later, I tell stories about people.
Health and fitness because I am passionate about both. I am as comfortable spending a day with a rare disease patient as I am playing with a runner on a wooded trail. For both I start with the person; a lifestyle image to me begins as a portrait.
