About Me

Even as a young girl, photography interested me - so when the Polaroid camera hit the market, and my family bought one, it was the first camera I ever used on my own, snapping candids. Playing with the Polaroid was GLORIOUS. Maybe not for my subjects (jumping out of closets may have frayed some nerves….whoops!), but capturing a unique moment in time? Well, that was priceless. Some of my more memorable moments from that time….

In high school I studied photography after saving up to buy my first SLR - I settled on a Minolta 35mm I researched and found at 47th Street Photo in Manhattan - all without the internet! Below are some of the last remaining photos I have from the mid-80s.

Years later, after a long hiatus without photography in my life, I purchased the iPhone 3. And, it was then that I remembered how much I loved capturing the unique moments in time.

The iPhone only went so far however (I mean, it technically was first a PHONE). It was time to step up my game, so I purchased the Nikon D5000. And, as luck would have it, all of a sudden, I didn’t have a day job (thank you horrible economy at the end of the last decade). I had hours of time alone while I searched for my next day job, so I started spending more and more time photographing.

My day job had been reliant on numerous people and weeks to months to produce something. With photography, to produce something, I only needed my eyes, my curiosity, a camera, a computer and some time. I had only to work with and for myself. It was a very different experience, and was wildly satisfying.

When I started, I was only interested in photographing nature and buildings…

Photographing people seemed really challenging - they were too dynamic, complex, interactive - so many variables to consider!

As with any meaningful artistic endeavor, exploring the very thing that seemed so challenging became my top desire eventually. And because of this desire, I’ve been a part of many Street and Documentary Photography Workshops over the last decade - from Paris to Cuba to Maine to Boston, I’ve studied with some great photographers and met some lifelong friends. My interests and skills have evolved. People are currently my favorite subject because of all of those reasons I once feared.

I love documenting the unscripted, dynamic nature of humans in all of our humanity.

And I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention I am a HUGE animal lover, and love photographing them. And my favorite 2 cats, brothers Felix and Oscar, have their own Instagram (felixoscar02472), but I’ll share some of my favorites of them below…

In sum, photography for me is a pursuit which has no end. There are no right or wrongs - there is simply my perspective. My subjects are ephemeral in nature, but in the act of making a photograph of them, they persist. And I persist. It's an evolving, dynamic practice: gratifying, frustrating, enlightening, meditative, surprising and freeing. Photography offers me a pure form of freedom - it allows me to follow what I am interested in, what intrigues me or delights me - and I can leave anything that I am not interested in behind. My interests shift and reshape all the time and my photography reflects that.