A native New Yorker, I grew up in the East Village and lived in the Hell’s Kitchen/Clinton neighborhood of Manhattan for over a dozen years. After beginning to study photography formally in high school, I attended Fordham University-College at Lincoln Center, where I majored in Theatre and minored in Photography. Following college I pursued a career as a dancer and actress in New York, while continuing to photograph the city I love and the surrounding countryside. When a chronic knee injury ended my dance career around 1992, I began pursuing photography full-time. While...more