Born: San Francisco, 1954 – I began photographing seriously at the age of twenty and

received my B.A. (1978) and M.A. (1980) in Art from San Francisco State University. I

am a recipient of both a Fulbright Scholar Award (Britain) and a Rockefeller Foundation

residency, Bellagio, Italy.

In 2005, the University of Virginia Press published my long---term project,

Imagining Eden: Connecting Landscapes. The book includes sixty photographs made

over a sixteen---year period from locations in America and Europe and includes an

introduction by British cultural geographer Denis Cosgrove. These imaginative places,

whether a city park, garden, cemetery, golf course, or military reservation, were created as

an attempt at recovering a connection with nature lost with Eden.

In 2013, I began a ten-year project titled: Living with the Horizon, photographing within

coastal homes with an uninterrupted view of the horizon. What they place near a window

becomes part of the landscape. Sometimes the objects seem to be randomly placed and

other times positioned with great care—almost a shrine. Whether random or deliberate,

the objects always possess an added gravitas when in the presence of the horizon. Living

with the Horizon will be exhibited at the Monterey Museum of Art in 2025.

My work can be found in numerous permanent collections, including: San

Francisco Museum of Modern Art; George Eastman House; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston;

Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris; Cantor Center, Stanford University; Center for Creative

Photography, Tucson; and Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego.

I served as head of the photography program at College of San Mateo for over thirty

years and retired from teaching in 2015.