Since my teens, (5 1/2 decades ago), the visual world has dominated my senses.  So many things catch my eyes and imagination.  Nature, light and shadow, simple forms, abstracts, architecture and designed objects, spiders, clouds, people, etc.  My cameras were and my iPhone is my extra appendage to this day.

In the reportage photos and portraits are some people I already knew, but more of them are of people who I got to know.  Many became friends.

By sheer luck, at age 25, I was hired to work in a prominent NYC art gallery in the early 1970’s.

I set up a crude but functional darkroom in the bedroom clothes closet in my apartment.

At the gallery, in addition to being my employer’s personal assistant, I was encouraged to photograph the art openings.  I hardly knew anyone when my job began, but that all changed as time went on.  Slowly, I overcame my shyness as I photographed more and more visitors and artists.  That then expanded to photographing art installations, individual paintings, drawings, sculptures, and, “my boss” as well, (which she kindly entertained).  She and I became very close friends in due time until her passing in 1982.

I continued photographing the art scene but less frequently.  At about the same time, I switched my focus, going back to school to study Interior Design.  That became my new profession and the occasional subject of my photography when I had time.