I was born in 1940 in Charlottesville, Virginia. I went to grade school in Illinois and high school in El Paso, Texas. At Earlham College in Indiana I studied philosophy and as a graduate student in New York City I studied theology at Union Theological Seminary and I studied acting with Stella Adler. I worked for a year in northern Vermont as a minister and then I went to India for two years to serve in the Peace Corp. After the Peace Corp I moved to Austin and taught in an institution for blind, developmentally disabled chidren. I finally made my way to Arkansas in the 1970s where I bounced back and forth between Little Rock and Fayetteville. From 1973 to 1977 I taught photography in the art department at the University of Arkansas. Fayetteville quickly became home and I've been here ever since. 

It's important to me that I've lived in so many different places and done so many different things before I finally settled down to do my work as an artist. My primary medium is black and white photography. Over the years I've produced several exhibits involving particular groups of people, most of whom are misunderstood or simply not 'seen' by the general public. These opportunities have given me a gift. I get a chance to take a really deep, long look at mankind and I continue to marvell at the light which illumines us all. My work with various advocacy groups is extremely satisfying to me because I get to do some good in the world and I get to make art that is simply good to look at.