Look, we all know I’m writing this, not my authorized biographer, so let me do away with all the third person stuff. I was born and raised in Detroit, which was a wonderful town up until the Japanese learned to make cars. Not wonderful for black Detroiters, mind you, but better than it is right now.

I went to Wayne State University in the 60s and 70s, eventually getting a BFA in art – photography and printmaking – but with a heavy minor in sex, drugs, and rock and roll.

I love school. Most of my life if I haven’t been a student, I’ve been a teacher. I have, give or take a dissertation, three Masters degrees – an MFA in photography from Cranbrook Academy of Art, an MS in Imaging and Photographic Science from Rochester Institute of Technology, and an MS in Technology Management from Polytechnic University of New York. I’ve taught at Wayne State, University of Michigan, Polytechnic University, Rockport College, the Maine Photographic Workshops (now Maine Media Workshops). I am also on the MFA faculty of Maine Media College.

I still teach a few workshops, specializing in digital photography for teenagers and for beginning and intermediate adults. That is, for adults beginning and intermediate in photography, not in being adults – mostly they are well experienced in being adults. If you wish to put a small group together somewhere in the world, let me know.

I spent a dozen years in the photographic industry with Matrix Instruments, a division of Agfa. I was chief scientist in a small group designing and manufacturing film recorders for medical and computer graphics. Who knew in the 80s, but part of my work in translating color information from one electronic device to another and eventually to film contributed to what we now call ICC profiles and device independent color.

Mostly, though, I make pictures; have for (has it really been) 45 years? For more about the images, see the text accompanying each gallery.