I have been practicing photography from my East Village studio (The Cave) for 20 years. I began combining fine art and documentary photography of the downtown music and art scene back in the 80's leading to over 50 album covers and culminating with the book LIGHT & DARK.
In the late ‘80s and early ‘90s, I traveled to Europe and India, resulting in two series of impressions used as artwork for music.
In 1995 I began photographing the Lubavitcher Jewish Community in Crown Heights, Brooklyn for the exhibition “Jewish Ritual†at Merkin Hall, Lincoln Center, NYC in January, 1996. This was part of John Zorn’s Radical Jewish Culture Festival, and again used with CD's on his Tzadik label
I have been teaching a class titled "The Art of Black & White Printing" for many years. First at The New School for Social Research in NYC and now at The Educational Alliance I have also taught photography at The School of Visual Arts (of which I am a graduate) and Parsons.
Around 1999 I began photographing NYC construction and the people who work in this field. This like the other projects is ongoing and is titled "fuck Fear, Rebuilding New York"
Coming this April 2010 I will be part of an exhibit titled Radical Jewish Culture. It is at The Jewish Museum for Art and History link below
http://www.mahj.org/en/3_expositions/expo_prochainement.php?
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Whats next? A long awaited book on my experience in the downtown NYC arts scene, working title "Zeitgeist of the 80's"
