I was born in Pittsburgh in 1942. My childhood environment was infused with artistic activity. My mother was a professional portrait painter who taught art classes in the family home and exhibited extensively in the Pittsburgh area. My childhood artitistic endeavors included hundreds of drawings of airplanes and cars.

     At the age of 17, I entered New York University and lived in New York City for the next 20 years. I obtained a B.A. in Music from NYU and a Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology from Rutgers, Newark. For 12 years, I was a Professor of Psychology first at Rutgers and then Manhattanville College.

     My interest in photography blossomed in the early 1960’s, spurred by extensive travel and the birth of my son Peter. I set up my first darkroom in 1965. In the early 1970’s my first wife, Elysabeth, and I established the 9th Street Studio, a gallery showing painting, sculpture, crafts and, of course, my photography.

     Photography eventually triumphed over Psychology in 1979 when a trip to France resulted in an exhibition entitled Douce France sponsored by Alliance Française in New York. The exhibit traveled though several cities in the U.S. and Canada as well as Paris.

     Moving to Woodstock in 1980, I joined local organizations including the Woodstock Artists Association and the Catskill Center for Photography. In 1982, met Robert Angeloch who was the prime mover behind the establishment of the Woodstock School of Art. He and I became fast friends and I quickly became a part of the school’s inner circle, which included Angeloch, his wife, Mara, Paula Nelson, soon to be my second wife, and myself. I also studied painting with Bob. For more than 25 years, we were an inseparable quartet, traveling together throughout the British Isles and visiting Monhegan Island almost yearly.

     Throughout the 1980’s I did a great deal of photography for artists and sculptors as well as for the Woodstock Times. The modest income from these endeavors lead me to additional pursuits and I began work at Woodstock Percussion Incorporated in 1988. There my musical and artistic interests fused as I worked on product design and development involving both sight and sound. I stayed at WPI until retiring in 2007.

     During these years I exhibited regularly at the Artists Association, the Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild, the Night Gallery, the Paradox Gallery, the Photography Center at Woodstock (where I taught the darkroom workshop), and the Historical Society of Woodstock. I was on the Board of the Woodstock School of Art from 1982 – 2021, and served as Chairman of the Artists Association in the early 1990’s and early 2000’s. Paula and I have curated several exhibits at the WAA and WSA in the past few years. My art education has continued since 2009 in Meredith Rosier’s abstract drawing courses at the WSA. My most recent solo exhibit, Just Looking, was at the James Cox Gallery at Woodstock in March, 2022.

      I continue to spend a great part of every day in photographic work, whether taking and editing new photos, printing, or preparing images for gallery display or posting online. A major project is organizing and preserving more than a half century of pictures.