Hello. Thank you for coming to see my web pages! If you saw me (seemingly ages ago now) on “MTV: I Want a Famous Face” then say “hi” by sending me a message. I’m curious how many people saw it.

I’m an Apple Macintosh fan and am proud to say all of these pages were created on the Macintosh MacPro with OSX on a 2 x 2.66 GHz Dual-Core Intel Xeon desktop with a fantastic program called Freeway Pro 4 by a nice company called Softpress. I was trying to use WordPress on my Dreamhost system to completely rehaul my website. This should have allowed more frequent updating and organization. Although the reality of laziness got in the way...and I went back to the trusty Freeway standby.

If you're on a PC, you should really “Get out of your Windows world! It’s not worth it,” as Jeremiah Cohick would say. But enough geek-talk for now.

In 1992, I graduated from the best journalism school in the country, the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. Since then I had been working as a photographer in Chicago. I was the art director and photographer of the Chicago Free Press, Chicago’s largest and most comprehensive GLBT newspaper. I previously worked as a freelance photographer for another newspaper in Chicago for seven years, where I won two Chicago Headline Club Peter Lisagor Awards for best photojournalist at a non-daily. That was the Windy City Times, the old WCT under publisher Jeff McCourt, who recently died.

I am a digital news and people photographer, using one Canon EOS 1D Mark III digital camera firing away at 8.5 frames a second when necessary. And don’t forget the latest weapon in my digital camera arsenal: the full-frame 12.7 megapixel picture-taking monster — the Canon EOS 5D. I also have a backup 1D Mark II in case the main camera goes down. My clients deserve the best, and I do my darndest to make sure that I’m on the cutting edge of technology to make sure they get the highest image quality. One other note, the photojournalist camera (the 1D Mark II) is the same ones used by the Associated Press, Chicago Tribune, New York Times and other major world newspapers and online services. These cameras are amazing tools that bring me so much joy by eliminating the need for me to rush to the photo lab and wait for film processing. And it gives my clients a level of interactivity and immediacy to their portrait and event photography sessions that is refreshing and sometimes even humorous. The 1D Mark III is coming and I'm keeping my eyes out for it!

I realize now that I’m no longer in Chicago, I’ve had to rewrite these few paragraphs with the past tense.

In addition to my work at the Chicago Free Press, I was one of the principal photographers for The Chronicle, the University of Chicago’s staff and faculty newspaper, where I worked with some great people and had a lot of fun. I covered everything from astro-physicists and paleontologists to William Shakespeare experts. Subjects ranging from heads of state to Nobel Prize announcement press conferences — to The Doomsday Clock, my work in Hyde Park was stimulating and rewarding and I miss the great friends I worked with: Laurie Davis, Steve Koppes and Bill Harms.

For example, I photographed President Bill Clinton’s commencement address at the University, as well as Hillary Rodham’s visit to the Robie House in Hyde Park, as well as Vicente Fox, the former president of Mexico, when he came to visit the university’s president.

The former Prime Minister of Japan also ranks as one of the more exciting photo subjects I’ve had occasion to photograph while at the university. He was in town to talk with undergraduates at the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Robie House in Chicago’s Hyde Park community. I am pleased to say my camera equipment passed the super-sensitive bomb-sniffing noses of the Secret Service’s German Shepherd team!

In other photo news, 1999 (wow that was last millennium already) marked my editorial debut in Chicago magazine—a sharp publication (that itself has won Peter Lisagor Awards) covering all aspects of the city by the lake—with two photographs of novelist Joe Meno and the owner of Le Francais restaurant in Wheeling, Ill.

Chicago House, Oscar Isberian Rugs and the Chicago Free Press teamed together with me as I participated in the City of Chicago’s “Suite Home Chicago,” public art exhibition on Michigan Avenue. I created a chair and ottomon covered with nearly 350 4?6 and 5?7 pictures from two years of newspaper photography documenting GLBT life in Chicago. It was purchased by Chicago House and is awaiting its permanent home in a very Cheney-esque “undisclosed location.” I’m looking forward to telling you exactly where - so stay tuned.

The City of Chicago Health Department’s Faces of AIDS project took me to Kansas to photograph about 15 people with the disease. My photographs are part of a traveling exhibit and two books.

I was published in the Week in Review section of the New York Times in December 1999 with a photograph of two grooms on top of a custom-made wedding cake illustration that I will be posting a sample of shortly. And in international news, The Times of London used a photograph I took of some Iranian tablets from the Oriental Institute to illustrate a story about the artifacts being returned to that country after a long legal battle.

In March 2000 I had six photographs of Chicago published in Fortune Magazine as part of a piece on “Killing Time in Chicago.”

I was also a contributor to the influential CITY2000 or Chicago In The Year 2000 project, a year-long look at Chicago life in the new millennium. I was exhibited at the 312 Gallery the first week in January, with two photographs of New Year’s Eve. A male couple at a party and my friends Bob and Sally Faust in their South Loop loft.

In October 2002 the “Men of Gentry Calendar” hit the streets with 12 pictures of Chicago guys. It was a lot of fun and benefits two local charities and I was happy to be the exclusive photographer.

2006 saw the debut of my “Scene in Philly” photo page in the Philadelphia Gay News, where I also occasionally write stories. Some of which even appear on the front page. After all these years in journalism, it’s still a thrill to see my name in print. I'm now the Visual Assets Manager at the Greater Philadelphia Tourism Marketing Corporation, described by our CEO as an "ongoing pep rally for the city of Philadelphia." We're the people who put together the "Philly's More Fun When You Sleep Over" campaign. So why am I in Philadelphia? My boyfriend Michael was transferred for his work. And I followed for love...to the City of Brotherly Love (and Sisterly Affection) as they say as well. There are pictures on my Flickr page. I'm off to New York with Michael at the end of June. So I'll need to change this page again!

Please check out my client list to see the fine people I have worked with and have completed work for. AND send me typo fixes, etc.! If you read all of this, thank you!

Or if you have even more time, you can contact me here.

Michael and me

What else is on this website?

Thoughts on professional lighting

Calendar boys photography

Slideshows from Philadephia, Chicago and more!

Don't forget my Flickr page.

Nuremberg, Oct. 2004. Photo by My Mom

Michael and me...My hair is much shorter now!