With an educational background in Social Psychology, I completed
a twenty-five year career in social services in 1995. Twenty of those years were spent developing and implementing programs
for difficult-to-treat children and youth. Specific target populations included retarded children, unemployed inner-city
youths, violent juvenile offenders, juvenile sexual offenders, and sexually abused children. All programs were based
on a theoretical paradigm I developed and entitled, "The Nature of Being Human: A Model for Attempting to Understand
the Complexities." My programs were located in Florida, Pennsylvania and Tennessee.
Related to successes of my programs, the common-sense basis of my model, and
my abilities to assimilate theories and visually represent them, I enjoyed public recognition throughout my career.
My curricula vitae lists seventy-five state, national and international conferences at which I made presentations, and thirty-five
state, Federal and private agencies that engaged me as consultant,
primarily to evaluate and restructure programs. I gave expert testimony eight times, including twice before the U. S.
House of Representatives and once before the California Supreme Court. I was published thirteen times, including six
articles in scientific and professional journals. I served on four state and five national committees/task forces, acting
as chairperson on all but two. Accomplishments of my programs were acknowledged in five journal articles, chapters in
three books, three national television programs, and two awards for outstanding achievement.
Having been a serious amateur photographer since college, in 1995 I decided
to pursue a career in social documentary photography. Subsequently, I spent two years studying at the Pittsburgh Center
for the Arts and one summer at the School for Photographic Studies in Prague.
Since 1997 my photography has been exhibited in group and individual shows in
New York, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Indianapolis and Memphis. Photographs from a project completed in 1997 for the Yerkes
Primate Center in Atlanta, GA, were presented at an international primatology conference and are part of a permanent exhibit
at a natural history museum in Belize. I also had photographs published in three editions of Photographer's Forum Best of Photography Annual. I was co-founder of Axiom Photographic Group in Pittsburgh,
and served as President of the Board of Directors and Executive Director of the School for Photographic Studies in Baltimore
and Prague.
From my collective
life experiences I have developed my own unique way of viewing the world, which I want to share with others. Specifically,
my goal is to proffer possible alternative ways of viewing the world. Targeted means toward this goal include gallery
and museum exhibits, and photographic and narrative publications.
My photography is represented by Gallery 56 in Memphis, TN. The work of all represented
artists may be viewed at http://thepalladiogroup.com/galleryfiftysix.
Additionally, my work may be viewed on two websites by typing my name in related search boxes.
Those websites are http://www.socialdocumentary.net and http://www.artid.com.
I was born in Memphis, Tennessee, where I resided for approximately half my
life. I also have resided in Florida, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York and Maryland but now reside in Oregon.
I have traveled to forty-one countries in search of images to capture.
I hope to travel to at least forty-one more before my time is up.
I have been married forty years, have one daughter, one son, one grandson and one granddaughter.
Our grandson has a diagnosis from the autism spectrum, which significantly has enhanced my view of the world. In the
truest sense, autism touches my heart.
