Me, 2006

I took my first photos with a box brownie in high school. I got serious about photography in college, where I almost survived an intensive photojournalism course for would-be photo board candidates for the Harvard Crimson. This non-credit course taught me the rudiments of darkroom work and lots of other aspects of photojournalism, but when the time needed to complete the weekly assignments approached forty hours, I reluctantly quit in order to spend a little time on my official studies. At Harvard I was also introduced to "fine art" photography through a friend and mountaineer, Chris Goetze, who helped me refine my seeing and my printing and who introduced me to the work of Ansel Adams, Minor White, and Edward Weston.

Minor White in 1966

When Minor White came to Boston to teach at M.I.T. in the 1960s, I met him and ended up taking two workshops with him and one with Paul Caponigro. During those years I had photos in small group shows at M.I.T. and in larger, curated exhibits at the DeCordova Museum in Lincoln, Massachusetts, and at M.I.T. ("Light7" and "Being Without Clothes"), both of which were catalogued in issues of Aperture magazine.

"Hugo, Levitational" in the exhibit "Being Without Clothes"

"Mirror" in the exhibit "Light7"

Over the years I have worked with 35mm cameras (Kodak Retina IIIC, eight or more models of Pentax SLRs, and more recently Canon film SLRs and DSLRs), medium format cameras (Pentax 67 II and Mamiya 6), 4x5" view cameras (Calumet and Zone V), and one 8x10" view camera (maker unknown). For about forty years I processed my own black-and-white film and made all of my prints in my own darkroom on a Beseler 4x5" enlarger. For color, I sent Kodachrome film to Kodak for processing into slides. In 2004 I got my first digital camera (a Canon 10D) so that I wouldn't have to worry about airport x-ray machines ruining film on a trip to the Canadian Rockies. After learning what I needed to know about Photoshop, I sold off all of my film cameras and succumbed to the lure of Digital Photography.

My photographs have appeared in numerous exhibits, including solo shows at
        New England School of Art and Design (Boston, MA);
        Newton Free Library (Newton, MA);
        Needham Free Library (Needham, MA);
        Suffolk University (Boston, MA);
        University of New Hampshire (Durham, NH);
        Cary Library (Lexington, MA).
        and the Brookline Senior Center (Brookline, MA).


My photographs are in the permanent collections of M.I.T., the Brockton Museum, the Addison Gallery of American Art, and in many private collections.


I have taught photography at Project, Inc., in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and at Suffolk University.
I retired a few years ago from my 'day job': For 35 years I was a professor of mathematics and computer science at Suffolk University.


My photos have been published in Aperture (U.S.A.), Camera (Switzerland), Creative Camera (U.K.), Venture (U.S.A.), Black and White Magazine (U.S.A.)
and Lenswork (U.S.A.): Our Magnificent Planet 2020..