Writer – Photographer – Educator
Over the years I've had the chance to interview and photograph amazing individuals, including writers and authors, award-winning authors, too. As photographers, as visual storytellers ourselves, we can learn a lot from them about painting with words and the art of storytelling itself. Here are a few examples of author interviews as well as book [...]
On Writing about Photography: Drafting the Artist Statement Writers would rather write an article or essay than a query letter to an editor to pitch that article or essay. They'd rather write a book than a synopsis. That's because it often seems to be so much harder to write a one-page query letter than a [...]
When does the final countdown of an year begin? Is it Thanksgiving? Is it the winter holidays? Either way, as this year is coming to an end (they always do, don't day?), I try to take that last look at 2016 and remember it by some of, what I consider, its most remarkable events. So, [...]
Photographing One's (Own) Self Self-portraits can teach us a lot, especially for those of us, portrait and headshot photographers, and not only. Self-portraits help reveal who we are as creatives, and also as individuals. More often than not, photographers feel at home behind the camera. Place them in front of their own lens, and [...]
In My Shoes: A Short Story for the Holidays Happy Thanksgiving! The holiday jump starts yet another holiday season. Yes, the holidays--warm and friendly, and stressful, and sometimes not that joyful, not for many people. I don't often write fiction anymore, but I'd like to share with you a very short story I wrote many, [...]
