| Professional Status: |
Professional |
| Specializations: |
High Fashion, Print, Art, Lingerie, Nude, Artistic Nude, Implied Nude, Erotic |
| Services Offered: |
Portfolio Development- Fee Based, Referral Services |
| Photography Type: |
Studio Based (Indoor), On Location (Outdoor) |
| Credits or Awards: |
If I mentioned them all it would so boastful. Suffice it to say that I've won my share of awards, I've worked for the famous and the not so famous and I have had a great time doing it. Besides which, I am no longer doing that kind of work. |
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| I was born just outside of Amsterdam and came to the US when I was seventeen. I received my undergraduate degree from Michigan, went into the business world and grew increasingly unhappy with what I was doing. In the mid 1970 I started to work on my Masters’ degree in photography and when I finished I also changed professions. Along the way I studied with Ansel Adams, Brett Weston, Morley Baer and Al Weber. In 1979 I became a full time photographer and in 1980 I added my other job of professor of photography when I started teaching at a prominent art school in Chicago. I absolutely love doing both.
As I have gotten older I have become pickier about the kinds of work I will do. So, if you have read this far you are lucky because we are coming to the most important part. If we set up a time to work together, then I will give you a phone number to call two hours before the picture session takes place. If I do NOT receive that phone call, I will NOT show up at the studio. There have been too many flakes and "no-show" models.
Quickly, I ask for a non-commercial model release from every one I work with. That allows me to use the pictures for exactly what it says – non commercial uses. If I get a request for a commercial use of a photograph, then the model and I will have a totally separate negotiation. In return, the model gets a non-commercial copyright release letter. Same deal and that’s only fair. Where do I work? Some of the time I use the studio space at the college where I teach, for some projects I use a very large Deardorff camera which is located in my house and for other projects I go to our beach house about an hour outside of the city. References? Ask me. Questions? Write.
I also teach the nude as a subject for serious art making. I have taught the nude for over 20 years for a variety of institutions and publications such as View Camera Magazine and Camera Arts Magazine. The Winter 2010 issue of NUDE Magazine has an eight page article with lots of my photographs in it. If you are interested in when the next workshop takes place, please send me a message.
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