Began painting and drawing around 1952, began photography in 1966. Have received local, state, and international awards for photography and the technical quality of the photographic print. I began the formal study of painting and drawing at the Hudson River Museum in Yonkers New York around the age of eight. I continued my art studies at Howard University in Washington DC., where I began studying photography. I continued my photographic studied while in the Arny and stationed in Wurzburg Germany with a local professional photographer and with the New York Institute of...more