About The Artist
My career in photography began in 1980, when I moved to New York City and answered an ad in the Village Voice for an assistant in a photography studio. I got lucky, and became an apprentice of Dan Demetriad, a master photographer and printer and owner of Dan Demitriad Studio on 57th Street. I learned studio photography and became a skilled black & white darkroom printer.
Outside of the studio, I photographed the streets of New York with my 35mm Nikon. I began printing my own work and became an expert in the technique of hand-coloring black & white photographs with oils. I fell in love with using vintage medium format cameras and began shooting still life and landscape. I started selling my work in New York, Australia, and Boston.
When I settled in Marblehead in the late 1990s, I opened Washington Street Fine Art Photography, where I spent a decade shooting black & white portraits of local families. In the gallery, I exhibited my own work, and that of other photographers.
My recent work has been in medium format color film. My 2020 series, Wildwood, explored the local environs close to my home and wooded areas on Cape Ann.
My current series, In The Garden, is of photographs from Sissinghurst and Great Dixter in Sussex, England. With an abstract immediacy, the large 30” x 30” prints create a visual immersion into the form and texture of the flora.
Black & White: My black & white photographs all originate from negative film. The images are archivally printed from scanned negatives. Some silver prints are still available. The hand-coloring is done with photographic oil paint on a silver print.
Color: All color photographs are archival pigment prints from scanned color negative film.
Camera: I use a wide range of vintage film cameras from my personal collection.
About THE PhotoGRAPHS
ARTIST STATEMENTS
W I L D W O O D, 2020
“I pondered, scrutinized and photographed the willow copse from all sides, from a distance as well as close up, and I could find no name for whatever it was that I found so lovely.” - from Esther Kinsky, “River”
The photographs in my latest series, Wildwood, were made on familiar land, in places I walk or drive by every day: woods, roadsides, swamps, fields and coastal scrub. The vegetation is not exotic or cultivated. Yet the beauty I see in these landscapes; the color and texture in weeds, grasses and brush, is more satisfying to my eye than a carefully planted botanical garden.
Returning to the same spots, day after day, the light always new, seasons beginning and slowly ebbing, countless paintings formed in my viewfinder. Being with my camera in these places, I felt an ineffable sense of serenity and joy.
I N T H E G A R D E N, 2026
Photographs from Sissinghurst and Great Dixter
These large color photographs are from visits to Great Dixter and Sissinghurst gardens, in East Sussex, England, in late spring 2023, and fall, 2025.
The images were made using vintage medium-format film cameras. Shot on rich Portra film, with a shallow depth-of-field and the absence of sky, they give the viewer the feeling of being in among the lush flora.