In the last five years, I have assembled a legacy book project that includes a brief memoir and black and white photographic portraits of artists and friends. The portrait sittings actually occurred between 1979 and 1981 in my SoHo loft at a time when SoHo was a collegial community of artists and art commerce.The portraits are timeless, revelatory, and powerful. The project is entitled The Face of SoHo Once Upon a Time to evoke the warm and fuzzy sense of bygone days.

I began my photographic career as one of the original Soho loft dwellers in the seventies. Previously, I frequented a trendy art bar/restaurant called Max's Kansas City. Although Max's did not qualify to be on any art school syllabus, I was inspired and educated by this intoxicating environment.

Drinking in proximity to Andy Warhol, maybe helped?

After completing my portrait series, I moved to Paris for six years, where I taught photography at the American Center on the Boulevard Raspail. I had exciting photography adventures including sittings with the president of France, Francois Mitterand and other luminaries, aristocrats, cafe proprietors, etc.. My work appears in the following public collections:

THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, NEW YORK, NY.

CENTRE GEORGES POMPIDOU, PARIS, FRANCE. 

BIBLIOTHEQUE NATIONALE, PARIS, FRANCE.

BOYMANS VAN BEUNINGEN, ROTTERDAM, NETHERLANDS.

THE OCEAN COUNTY LIBRARY, TOMS RIVER, NJ.

When I returned to New York, I continued making portraits--now working from life. I am working on an irreverent photographic series called "My Left Thumb" which focuses on not focusing.