biography
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I grew up in New York City on Roosevelt Island and currently reside in Woodside, Queens. I studied the visual and performing arts vigorously throughout my childhood and went on to major in theatrical scenic and lighting design. Shortly before dropping out of graduate school I had returned to photography something serious and abruptly altered my path by spending the subsequent decade mastering my use of the 35mm camera.

I hocked my trade and talent as a means of nominal financial sustenance by designing lighting and painting scenery throughout the bowels of Off-Off Broadway, Off-Broadway, some TV and Summer Stock as well as national tours with stage companies and later spent six years traveling with a Jazz sextet all the while taking advantage of those opportunities to refine my photographic point of view.
 
 
For the past five years I have been working primarily as a teaching artist (painting, sculpting, photography and stage design) in middle and high schools and since 2008 have been working extensively with adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities while continuing to freelance as either a scenic painter or photographer in theaters and Jazz clubs across the city.