Brought up by an artist/photographer, I came to appreciate the artfulness of photography early in life, and I have been enamored of it ever since. I learned camera and darkroom skills at CMU (Carnegie Mellon University) in the early 70’s. Although being only 12 years old at the time, I was not actually an enrolled student – my teacher happened to be my father, a professor of both art and photography at this prestigious university. I went on to work in the graphic arts field mainly as an offset press operator and spent time as a cameraman, darkroom technician, and film...more
