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I give you the images I know.
Lie still with me and watch.

-Anne Sexton
"The Fortress"

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MILO
1997

Konica 35/2.0



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".....street photography focuses on the destitute and people living on the seamy side of life. His portraits reveal the sitters' inner beauty. Strong, mature work, punctuated by some irreverent humorous images."

"Expressive and often gritty black and white portraiture gives a glimpse into the lives of each of his subjects." -Sabine magazine

ART IS A FOOTPRINT OF THE SOUL

Artist's Statement
The Subject of each Photograph is in its own realm a counterpart to the others; and the beauty inside you and me is their commonality.

CRANBURY STATION
1991

Nikon 8008, Nikkor 105/2.8 macro

"I wonder if he knew, and I suspect that he did, that he had left me something far more important, which was his blood in my veins?"
-Tennessee Williams, about his father

DEDICATED TO "MOTHER" AND "DADDY"
Starting Point


LITTLE GIRL PLAYING
1997

Konica Hexar, 35/2.0

"The force of a photograph is that it keeps open to scrutiny instants which the normal flow of time immediately replaces."
-Susan Sontag ON PHOTOGRAPHY


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Transparency incurs risks of being judged by others, but as I grow older external opinions don't matter so much except when I learn facts about myself. I am not the first to find that candor is a path to self-discovery. - 1992

CUTTER DRAPER
Miami 1997

Nikon F4S, Nikkor 50/1.8


OTHER SIDE OF THE ISLAND
1992

Nikon 8008 Nikkor 28/2.8

OTHER SIDE OF THE ISLAND
One winter day I followed a rugged path around the lake to see for myself what it was like on the other side of the island. It was beautiful there and strangely familiar. A few clusters of ice fishermen were on the lake; otherwise as most always, I was alone. I have learned from others that pictures must comprise the persons who look at them- that each person must walk that visual path alone. For me that winter day as sometimes happens, the camera seemed to bare the very soul... New Jersey 1992


SOLITARY TREE
1992

Nikon 8008

The photographs which I present are of that which is in me. They touch my heartstrings; they are footprints of my soul. The pictures generally dwell on the sweet or the melancholy, the lonely, the fragile or the awesome. If you study them as I do, you will come to know me pretty well - and something of yourself too. I...the solitary tree, the hurting alcoholic; the happy child or the grave of a child all have something in common. Each in its own realm is a counterpart to the others and the beauty inside you and me is their commonality... 1991, New Jersey.


Man on a Bench
New York City 1992

Nikon, Nikkor 50/1.8




PUERTO RICAN CHILDREN ON CENTRE STREET
Trenton, New Jersey 1992

Nikon F4S, Nikkor 50/1.8

Each brother sister pair are cousins.


DONUT SHOP
South Florida 1998

Nikon F4S, Nikkor 50/1.8, monopod




HAITIAN WOMAN WITH HAT
South Florida, 1996

Nikkor 50/1.8

Hats such as this are commonly worn by women in the South-Florida Haitian Community.


FEET
Miami Florida, 1996

Nikon F4S, 180/2.8 ED

Taken at City Hall in downtown Miami. Many of the Miami homeless are without shoes - something which wouldn't work in most climates of the country.