I’m a Pennsylvania-based fine art and documentary photographer focusing on preserving the unique stories and histories of my subjects, including rescued animals in the Sanctuary project, former homes of enslaved people in the Slave Dwellings, and the landscape and history of a Pennsylvania valley in Home/Land, including the anthracite miners in Hard Coal

A portion of sales from my photographs is donated to the selected charities, supporting animal rescues where I photographed and the Slave Dwelling Project.

For my work I primarily use three film cameras:

a hand-built Phillips 8x16” ultra-large-format view camera, a 4x5” field view camera, and a medium-format Hasselblad. I work with only the available light and no distortion filters or digital altering. Images are printed by me in a traditional wet darkroom.

I grew up on a farm in central Pennsylvania and moved to California after getting a degree in aerospace engineering. Unfortunately that’s also when I discovered I’d rather be a photographer than a rocket scientist. I spent the next 6 years photographing on the side before resigning in 1992 to become a full-time photographer.

I lived and photographed near Yosemite for 4 years before moving to a rural Pennsylvania farm which has been owned by my family for generations, and where I live with my family and many rescued animals.

SELECTED AWARDS & EXHIBITIONS:

Juror Award, Main Street Fort Worth Arts Festival, 2024
Center Forward Exhibition, Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, Colorado, 2022
Rust Belt Biennial Exhibition, Sordoni Gallery, Wilkes Barre, PA 2019
Royal Photographic Society, International Photography Competition, London, England 2014 Jurors: Tim Rudman, Lewis Blackwell, Caroline Hyman, Roy Robertson
Solo exhibition, Hard Coal, Hoyt Center for the Arts, New Castle, PA 2014
Selected for the New York Times Portfolio Review, NYC 2014. (Reviewers: James Estrin, NY Times; Amy Wolff, PDN; Alison Nordstrom.)
Hoyt Center for the Arts, Mid-Atlantic Juried Exhibition, New Castle, PA 2013, 2007
Center for Fine Art Photography, Portraits Exhibition, 2013 Fort Collins, Colorado. Juror: Charles Guice
Slave Dwelling Project Arts Exhibit North Charleston, South Carolina. Juror: Joseph McGill
First Prize, Photography: Art of the State, State Museum, Harrisburg, PA, 2012
Black & White Photography, Photoplace Gallery, Middlebury, VT 2011
Merit Award (Landscape/Nature), Black & White Magazine, Single Image Contest 2011
Semi-finalist, Hasselblad Masters Copenhagen, Denmark 2008
Yosemite Museum Gallery, Yosemite, California Fall 1998
Grand Prize, Natural World Photography Competition, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1994

INTERVIEWS & PUBLICATIONS:

Through the Lens of Compassion at JP Farm Animal Sanctuary
One of my illuminated slave dwelling photographs was included in the newly published 2nd edition of Jill Enfield’s classic Guide to Photographic Alternative Processes: Popular Historical and Contemporary Techniques
A custom printed size of Marcie No. 1 shown in New England Home magazine
The Rust Belt Biennial in Ain’t Bad: An Independent Publisher of New Photographic Art
The Rust Belt Biennial in Lenscratch
Short video interview with me for the 2018 Saint Louis Art Fair’s Meet the Artists series
Washington Post, October 2017
Narratively, December 2016
Interview by Farm Sanctuary with me and other photographers who do volunteer work there including Isa Leshko, Derek Goodwin, Aaron Rosapepe, Vee Hertel, and Lesley Marino.