I was introduced to film photography as a freshman in high school by Karen Kaighin. Photography immediately became my passion and focus for over a decade. I attended a selective intensive summer photography program at Merychurst College in Erie, Pennsylvania and was recognized nationally for my black-and-white photography. Even as I “developed” new interests in college and graduate school, I was sure to tie them to photography, much like my college mentor, Barry Perlus.

For instance, in freshman year at Cornell University after a class on Minoan and Mycenaean Archaeology, I began going to Greece in the summers to help on excavations, including working as a site photographer for Winn Burke and the Mitrou Archaeological project. Conversely, in graduate school for museum studies at Brandeis University, I combined my new interests in Greece with my passion for photography for my thesis, History of Greek Photography, 1839–1960, an update to Alkis Xanthakis’ out of print volume. While in Boston, I also interned at the Panopticon Gallery, one of the oldest fine art photography galleries in the United States, found by Greek-American, Tony Decaneas.

My photographic work has been exhibited in galleries in Pennsylvania, New York, and Connecticut, and I have also curated exhibitions in Massachusetts and Pennsylvania. Visit the museum section of my website to learn more.

My training, experience, and interests in traditional darkroom photography (color and black-and-white) and alternative or historical processes (albumen prints, tin-types, cyanotype, pin-hole) coincided with the historical shift from analog to digital photography.

Back in 2005, I explored and contrasted the differences in the style of self-portraiture (now called “selfies”) on MySpace and Facebook- both new and websites (not “social media platforms”) at the time, and long before the January 2020 Dolly Parton Challenge.

While I continue to shoot and prefer film, I use several different brands of digital cameras. Being a member of the Stamford Photography Club in 2016–2017 enlightenment me on new digital cameras, techniques, software such as LightRoom, and encouraged me to more fully embrace the new digital reality.

I continue to experiment with color, and juxtapositions of images, series of images, writing and other manipulations, as I always have in my photo-books, and Duane Michals remains one of my greatest photography inspirations. I will work on digitizing my large film archive and my 20+ photo-books from my time abroad someday in the near future, but for now, a sampling of old film photographs and new digital ones are presented here.