I like to take pictures of all sorts of things and have since I was a very young child. My first camera was an Agfa Record II from around 1950 that I got when I was too young to appreciate it and it ended up destroyed. I wish I had it now – it was 15 years old when I got it and now it’d be almost 70.
Due to a longstanding relationship with music, I shoot a lot of musicians and musical gear, most often drummers and drums. My association with music creates a very comfortable working relationship, whether with manufacturers, collectors, labels, management, writers, art directors, venues, or players themselves. I’m always interested in shooting musicians in the way they want to be seen, and whether the work is done in my studio or on location I’m very open to ideas. I’m also taking on portraiture here in Rhode Island as well as commercial work.
In my personal work I’m interested in the isolation of everyday places and things from the vernacular landscape. Currently I’m looking at the present condition of the mills and factories in Rhode Island and where they’ve been, where there are, and where they’re going. What was once a powerful center of the Industrial Revolution is now mostly crumbling and much of it is just slipping away unnoticed. I’m trying to document what’s left and how the relationship with these buildings has changed and might change in the future.
I was born in New York City, lived in Pennsylvania, Germany, Connecticut, and Florida for varying amounts of time. New York is where I spent most of my life and it’ll always be home, but recently I moved to Rhode Island. Up until COVID I was still working in New York a lot and getting set up in Rhode Island and have a well equipped studio just outside of Providence.
I studied at Hartford Art School with Robert Cumming, Mary Frey, Jack Goldstein, and Gilles Giuntini, all who were instrumental in my thinking in extremely different ways.
Selected List of Commercial and Editorial Clients and placement: Batterie Magazine, Build your Running Body, CBS Records, Cargo Records, Charvel Guitars, Craviotto Drum Co., Decibel Magazine, Dream Cymbals, Ewvidco, Exile on Moan Street, Flagpole Magazine, Grub Street, Hallow Ground Records, Impose Magazine, Late Night With Seth Myers, Ludwig Drums, Macy’s, Modern Drummer Magazine, Main Drag Music, Music Inc. Magazine, NBC, New York Magazine, Noisey/Vice Magazine, Pearl Drums, Residential Properties, Reverb.com, The Sleeping Shaman, Solo Sounds Records, Spin Magazine, TeePee Records, Thrill Jockey Records, Undermountain Ukuleles, Vintage Guitar Magazine, Warner Brothers, Williamsburg and Greenpoint News and Arts
Due to a longstanding relationship with music, I shoot a lot of musicians and musical gear, most often drummers and drums. My association with music creates a very comfortable working relationship, whether with manufacturers, collectors, labels, management, writers, art directors, venues, or players themselves. I’m always interested in shooting musicians in the way they want to be seen, and whether the work is done in my studio or on location I’m very open to ideas. I’m also taking on portraiture here in Rhode Island as well as commercial work.
In my personal work I’m interested in the isolation of everyday places and things from the vernacular landscape. Currently I’m looking at the present condition of the mills and factories in Rhode Island and where they’ve been, where there are, and where they’re going. What was once a powerful center of the Industrial Revolution is now mostly crumbling and much of it is just slipping away unnoticed. I’m trying to document what’s left and how the relationship with these buildings has changed and might change in the future.
I was born in New York City, lived in Pennsylvania, Germany, Connecticut, and Florida for varying amounts of time. New York is where I spent most of my life and it’ll always be home, but recently I moved to Rhode Island. Up until COVID I was still working in New York a lot and getting set up in Rhode Island and have a well equipped studio just outside of Providence.
I studied at Hartford Art School with Robert Cumming, Mary Frey, Jack Goldstein, and Gilles Giuntini, all who were instrumental in my thinking in extremely different ways.
Selected List of Commercial and Editorial Clients and placement: Batterie Magazine, Build your Running Body, CBS Records, Cargo Records, Charvel Guitars, Craviotto Drum Co., Decibel Magazine, Dream Cymbals, Ewvidco, Exile on Moan Street, Flagpole Magazine, Grub Street, Hallow Ground Records, Impose Magazine, Late Night With Seth Myers, Ludwig Drums, Macy’s, Modern Drummer Magazine, Main Drag Music, Music Inc. Magazine, NBC, New York Magazine, Noisey/Vice Magazine, Pearl Drums, Residential Properties, Reverb.com, The Sleeping Shaman, Solo Sounds Records, Spin Magazine, TeePee Records, Thrill Jockey Records, Undermountain Ukuleles, Vintage Guitar Magazine, Warner Brothers, Williamsburg and Greenpoint News and Arts