I am both a photographer and a historian and most of my spare time these days is spent either taking pictures or studying the past. Each activity informs the other: What does past time look like? How did the scene in my viewfinder come to be that way?

I first picked up a camera to document the disputed presidential election of 2000. Then I discovered the joys and sorrows of working with large view cameras: loading film-holders in a closet, developing sheet film in the bathroom, spending an hour in the field making one picture. I was hooked. I built a full darkroom in the upstairs bedroom and enjoyed the faint aroma of fixer wafting through the house.

I needed to step away from photography in 2015 to care for a seriously ill loved one. When I returned to picture-making in 2021, I wanted to do something different than what I had done before. So the view cameras stayed in the closet while I embraced digital and began working in color.

The portfolios on this website reflect that journey. The first three groupings - “Vestiges of the Past” “The Mediterranean World” and “Documentary Projects” are from my early forays into photography from 2000 to 2015. The last section - “Recent Work” presents images made since 2021.