ABOUT THE CLASSIC SERIES:

After returning home from my sojourn in Europe I continued to create candid, black and white, available light, 35mm. images of whatever inspired me, I have never stopped doing this. The first photographs that inspired me were those of “Working Men” by Irving Penn.  I viewed these images in the Vogue magazines that my mother subscribed to when I was in my late teens. Soon after inspirations for my own way of shooting came from Bill Brandt, Cartier Bresson, and Brassai, and later from the work of Robert Frank.

I continued to use the Leica 3 camera until I bought an M2 in 1975, which I used until I got a Leica/Minolta CLE in 1989.  Now I mostly shoot with a Canon Rebel or a Ricoh Caplio R5, both digital, and I shoot with film or print on silver when needed.