1961
Born In San Francisco.

1983
Received a B.Sc. in Exploration Geology from the University Western Ontario, Canada. Began photography while working as a geologist in the Canadian arctic and Alaska.

1986-94
Based in Tokyo for eight years covering Southeast Asia as a photojournalist, primarily covering environmental issues.

1995-
Moved to New York. Working on projects that are concerned with nature in a more abstract sense.

PUBLICATIONS

UPSTREAM, Fly Fishing in the American West
(Aperture, 2000) presents an esoteric look at nature from the angler's point of view. This work is currently being shown in a traveling exhibition comprised of twenty-five 40" x 40" prints.

Turtle Islands: Balinese Ritual and the Green Turtle
(Takarajima, 1994) offers a graphic look at animal sacrifice and its modern implications.

Mentawi Shaman: Keeper of the Rain Forest
(Aperture, 1992) tells the story of one Shaman's life on a remote island in Indonesia. I lived with this tribe for two months every year for eight years.

India: A Celebration of Independence, 1947-1997
(Aperture, 1997) a book and traveling exhibition, which includes my large scale panoramic photographs, depicting a strange post industrial world.

Photographs have appeared in numerous international publications including The New York Times Magazine, Blind Spot, Aperture, Natural History, Men's Journal, Orion, Big Sky Journal, and GEO.

The Mentawi Shaman and Turtle Islands work was profiled on National Public Radio, CNN International, and NHK Japan in a one-hour television documentary.

EXHIBITIONS

Upstream was exhibited at the National Museum for Wildlife Art, in Jackson Hole and is currently at The Albany Museum of Art in Georgia. It will be at The Yellowstone Museum of Art in Montana this summer, 2002.

Mentawi Shaman was exhibited at Nikon Salon in Tokyo (1987).

India: A Celebration of Independance was shown at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Asia Society, Royal Ontario Museum, Berkely Art Museum (Univ. of California), Minneapolis Institute of Art, Lowe Art Museum (Univ. of Miami) and the Arthur Sackler Gallery at the Smithsonian Institute (1998-2000).

Science Fiction was first exhibited by at the Eyre/Moore Gallery in Seattle, October 2001.

Lectured at the American Museum of Natural History, The Summit Photo Workshop, Mountain Film in Telluride and at the Open Center in New York.

CURRENT PROJECT

Science Fiction, the most recent body of work, is concerned with issues of space, the nature of evolution from micro-particles to galaxies, and the aesthetics of exploration. These camera-less photographs are printed from negatives drawn with a carbon based emulsion on a polyester base. The first ../images from this work appeared recently in Blind Spot (issue 19) and in APERTURE periodical (Photography and Time issue #158).