I was always an observer of life when I was growing up. I grew up with television and the weekly magazines like Look and Life. Those magazines took me to faraway places and I admired the men and women who photographed those exotic events and locales...

A writer once said “write about what you know.” My life at this time revolved around sports. A good friend and mentor, Melchior Digiacomo, hired me as his assistant at a critical time in my life. He was and is a great photographer and I l...

In 1978 Hoboken was starting to change. It was a hard working New Jersey port city directly across from Manhattan. It had fallen on hard times for many decades. People were leaving for the suburbs and tenement dwellers were being forced out. A suspic...

I loved sports but yearned to work on longer stories. I wanted to do more journalistic assignments. A photo editor from Geo magazine called my brother Jack and I and asked us to photograph the demolition of the Marlboro Blenheim hotel in Atlantic Cit...

After the Demolition story my brother and I researched and proposed a story about the  transportation of hazardous material by rail throughout the country.  We contacted the NTSB(National Travel & Safety Bureau) and they agreed to contact us wh...

After that story in Geo I researched and proposed an essay about the Mohawk Ironworkers who have been working on high steel in our cities for generations. I spent three months photographing their amazing work in NYC and The Caughnawaga reservation i...

https://vimeo.com/367592369 The 1980’s witnessed a huge change in American society. The murder of John Lennon in December 1979 and the inauguration of Ronald Reagan heralded the rise of traditional conservative political and moral value...

When I was 15 years old I worked in Palisades Amusement Park high atop the the Jersey palisades across from Manhattan. I worked with the Carny guys. They were the men and women who traveled all across the U.S. setting up the State and County fairs. T...

My last story for Life magazine gave me a new lease on life. It was about a little Catholic school in Jersey City, NJ winning a national basketball championship. After photographing this story I looked over the negatives and realized I had witnessed ...

After finishing my work that year I realized that I wanted to be a teacher and I embarked on a new and rewarding journey. I would like to thank this small family for leading me to a profession that I believe renewed my faith in the human spirit. Sain...

My experience at St.Anthony’s gave me the incentive to embark on a new and rewarding journey, teaching. I knew I wanted to work with kids not unlike myself at that age. My experience at Washington Irving in Manhattan and Truman in the Bronx gav...

Most of the magazine work I had to do was always in color. Black Star Photo agency had distributed my work though out the world. The agency’s president was Howard Chapnick. He thought I saw better in black and white. I gave this some thought an...