When I arrived in New York in the late 1970s, the city's collapsing infrastructure was already masking a slow urban renewal. Despite growing street crime, a vibrant art scene thrived. Camera in hand and a tripod strapped to my waist, I explored Manhattan's edges, drawn mostly to the industrial West Side below 14th Street, near the river, where early evening light was plentiful. At age 23, after leaving a job in advertising, I expanded my lens outward, embarking on several cross-country trips, as well as travels through Hawaii and Mexico.

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My first exhibition was in 1983 at the Floating Foundation of Photography, a celebrated gallery boat docked on the Hudson River, where my earliest work hung alongside images by Duane Michals and color pioneer Pete Turner. Soon after, Susan Kismaric, Associate Curator at the Museum of Modern Art under the leadership of John Szarkowski, singled out my urban landscapes in a portfolio review. Gallery sales at Semaphore in the East Village and representation by M-13 in SoHo followed. In recent years, my work has been exhibited at the Fairfield County Museum of Art and the Marblehead Art Association, and 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.