Here is a study of dancers and time exposure evoking the
emotions expressed in the dance.
I am a self taught artist working in the digital photography and print making medium. As a teenager I began drawing and working in water colors until I joined the army and went to Germany. Europe was an art education that influenced my later work in oil painting.
I was always interested in light and it's effect on objects. To earn a living and pay for my painting materials i worked in the off-broadway theater which enthralled me.
I soon became a Lighting Designer and worked in that field through many different mediums, modern dance companies, opera before graduating to network television where I worked for almost every major network in the USA. I was awarded two lighting Emmy's for my work .
But my true love was always my own personal work in photography. For years I was happy to crawl around taking pictures of flowers and scenics. But I missed my people, flowers are wonderful but people are more important to me..
I enjoy the interaction and creativity of working with people and dancers have a special place in my heart. We share a vibrancy and love of movement that I hope comes across in my work.
So it is with them, the dancers, that my long term studies in color, motion and form are coming about. It's a new discovery every time we work together.
Awards 2012 Red Dog News, contest Red, prize awarded
2010 International Aperture Award, Bronze award, Rt 7, landscape
2010 The Robert Cornelius Awards, Honorable Mention, the Fall, nude study
2009 International Photography Award, Honorable Mention
2009 Prix de la Photographie, Paris (PX3) competition: Honorable Mention
2008 Momentum: Images of Dance, First place.
Photographers Forum Magazine 27th annual competition: Honorable Mention
Photographers Forum Magazine 26th annual competition: Honorable Mention
Two Emmy awards 1985, 1986 for lighting television daytime dramas
