My Life as a Professional Photographer

As an 8-year-old, the gift of a Brownie camera ignited my life-long love affair with photography, but it was the 1972 hustle and bustle of New York City's commercial photography world that provided the fertile ground for my career in photography.  As I built my skills and reputation as a professional photographer, I was proud to work with such clients as Estee Lauder, Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sachs, Y & R, McCann-Erickson, Macy's, Bloomingdale's, New York Magazine, Metropolitan Home Magazine, and Architectural Digest.  My work was diverse and assignments were exciting, taking me from corporate annual reports and location shoots around the world,  to my fifth avenue studio for special effects and table top still life photography.

After 25 years I was ready for a change!  So I packed up my home and moved to upstate New York near the Berkshire Mountains in Massachusetts.  I wanted to be around trees and mountains, with a lifestyle that was more deeply nurturing than being in the city.  Pursuing a new career in massage therapy and foot reflexology privately and at Canyon Ranch’s world class spa, allowed me to develop a deeper connection with my clients than I had experienced in the commercial photography world of New York City.  Within a few years I had built my dream massage studio, deep in the forest, where clients came for massage and reflexology sessions while enjoying the peaceful surroundings of the forest, mountains, and streams.

But I never stopped taking photographs.  The bucolic Berkshire landscapes caught my attention and the speed, immediacy, and quality of the new digital technology was very exciting for me.  The possibilities here were endless and continually inspiring.  Adding to the inspiration was a visit to New Mexico where I, like so many others, fell in love with the landscape and light of the southwest.  The seed was planted for a move that was to come two years later.

In the Spring of 2005 I began a new series of personal work: The Berkshire Artists Project. I began photographing artists whose work I admired.  I have always had a deep appreciation for artists and the work they produced and finally found a way to collaborate with them in creating a photographic essay that expressed something about their creative message.  Working with these artists I found a close personal connection with my subjects much as I had discovered in my massage work, but this time it was through the medium of photography.

These collaborations have been very satisfying.  Whether working with painters, writers, graphic artists, dancers, sculptors, or musicians, I love photographing creative people.  In the Fall of 2005, after living in New York State all of my life, I embarked on a new adventure and moved to Santa Fe.  With the move, the art project has expanded and I am now photographing artists of the southwest.

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