Bio

After Philadelphia's Charles Morris Price School of Advertising & Journalism, Philadelphia Museum College of Art, three years in the Army (including 18 months in Eritrea, doing an east African version of "Good Morning Vietnam" from an 8,000' mountain top); then back to Philly for a year as Account Executive/TV producer/Copywriter/Art Director at Ball Associates Advertising Agency, and two years at WIP Radio... I entered Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles in 1968. While in school, I assisted film-makers Haskell Wexler, Cal Bernstein and other notables.

I completed the four-year BFA in two years and nine months, then worked with designers Charles and Ray Eames, while sharing a studio with Jim Britt, MoTown's premier L.A. photographer. I was West Coast Manager of The Associated Press commercial photography division.

In 1973 I substituted for a photography teacher on leave. Like everything in life, one thing led to another, and soon I was teaching at East L.A. College, Cal State University, Mt. San Antonio College and L.A. City College. Meanwhile, my client list was expanding, and I opened a solo studio, specializing in advertising and illustrative photography, with clients such as Mattel, Rockwell, Metromedia, Paramount Pictures, Atlantic Records, MGM, several regional and national consumer magazines and advertising agencies.

At night and weekends, I squeezed-in graduate work at The Annenberg School for Communications at USC, picked up a teaching credential at UCLA, and became a Professor of Media Arts.

Eventually, full-time teaching swapped places with photography.

In 2001, I retired and spent a year "decompressing" in an old-growth redwood grove near Eureka, northern California. Then it was on to New Hampshire and a radically different and enjoyable life in a rustic post-and-beam house surrounded by trees and bordered by hundreds of acres of Audubon Society wildlife refuge. Now I'm re-experiencing the joy of photography, unencumbered by publication deadlines and academia.