When I arrived in New York in 1979, a vibrant art and music scene thrived despite crumbling infrastructure and rising street crime. The atmosphere was charged with a raw, electric energy. With a camera in hand and a tripod strapped to my waist, I spent years tracking Manhattan's changing edges.  Drawn mostly to the industrial West Side below 14th Street, I waited for early evening light near the river.

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This urban documentation led to my first exhibit in 1983 at the Floating Foundation of Photography—a celebrated gallery boat on the Hudson River—where my earliest work hung alongside images by Duane Michals and color pioneer Pete Turner. Soon after, my Cibachrome print portfolio caught the attention of Susan Kismaric, then Associate Curator at the Museum of Modern Art under John Szarkowski. Representation by M-13 in SoHo and gallery sales at Semaphore in the East Village followed. Today, my work is held in the permanent collections of the Brooklyn Museum, the Museum of the City of New York, and the Nassau County Museum of Art, and was recently exhibited at the Fairfield County Museum of Art and the Marblehead Art Association.