I like to take pictures of all sorts of things and have done so 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.
For my personal work I’m interested in the isolation of everyday places and things, often everyday elements of environment or environments themselves that are easily taken for granted, and re-examining them through the photographic process. I want to question established visual identity and perceived meaning and challenge the common understanding of how we see and experience the ordinary, even the banal.
I was born in New York, 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. I’m still working in New York a lot and trying to set up in Rhode Island as well.
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 Clients: 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.
For my personal work I’m interested in the isolation of everyday places and things, often everyday elements of environment or environments themselves that are easily taken for granted, and re-examining them through the photographic process. I want to question established visual identity and perceived meaning and challenge the common understanding of how we see and experience the ordinary, even the banal.
I was born in New York, 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. I’m still working in New York a lot and trying to set up in Rhode Island as well.
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 Clients: 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