Photographs provide a powerful visual signature to the continuously changing evolution of events that define the world we live in. My first experience with a camera happened at the age of eight with a birthday gift from my parents. Of course early photographs would include innocent pictures of backyard trees or the lawn hose, which provided me with much childhood pleasure, yet at the inquisitive age of seventeen I became fascinated with how the impact of well-composed design elements can convey a subtle message that provides insight with aesthetic prose.

Aside from the standard subjects (my dog Sneakers, friends or youthful crushes of the time) it seemed that I was innately endowed with a gift to capture the moment via photography with the prescience to listen to how potential events would unfold before they occurred. It was at this instant that I would splice myself into a circumstance to capture its ephemeral passage, always shot "through the lens" without the benefit of computer manipulation or enhancement.

This is not mystical reverie, it's an application of "seeing faster" which has confirmed itself to me time and again and is always an enthralling revelation with each new situation. As a result, I have been able to provide client's needs with photographs that speak from a vantage point ahead of expected events, allowing imagery that becomes simultaneously timely and timeless.

Over the past decade, I have extensively photographed the historic transition of emerging market economies in the former Soviet states as a retrospective commentary on the developments that have helped reshape a new era in world history. 

The volatile political affairs in the Caspian Sea countries and the proposed development of the oil-fields in the region has become the most recent subject that I have been photographing, particularly in the Republic of Georgia . This has resulted in my having witnessed the impact of Georgia's "Rose Revolution" which swept the country through unprecedented changes as the strategic importance of the area became apparent through increasing world headlines.

This region is seen as geopolitically controversial, attracting consistent environmental attention while remaining in the nexus of conflicting post-Soviet and Western economic interests.

Previous Experience:

Photographs are represented globally through: Stone/Getty Images , Veer and Photonica . Material is continually being published on a worldwide basis for clients such as Sony, Microsoft, Quest Communications, Volkswagen and American Express.

Featured cover photograph on 1996 Pulitzer Prize nonfiction winner. Significant profile article appears in Nikon World Magazine, winter 1997 Issue.

Cover photograph appears In GEO Magazine, December 1999 and images on Australian Aborigines published in February 2000 and December 2004 special issue.

Cover article on ancient Georgian Colchian artifacts appears in Archaeology Magazine, March/April 2001 Issue.

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Steven Weinberg as "JUNE 2002's "LEGEND BEHIND THE LENS"

U.S. Embassy Tbilisi, Georgia sponsors a solo exhibit commemorating simultaneous anniversaries of the first year of the Rose Revolution and the fifteenth year of the Berlin Wall opening, November 2004.

Recently produced photo essays:

Oil development and the geopolitics of the Caspian region

Post-Soviet Georgia at the crossroads of globalization

Economic and social transitions in Central Europe

Lifestyle of Aboriginal elders in the Australian outback

Personal:

Born in New York City , an avid classical pianist since the age of nine, B.A. 1978, Sonoma State University . After college, picked up a camera and headed for Europe .