Bio

I was born in New York in 1951, have practiced photographic art since 1957, and have a B.A. in photography from The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington. I taught art and photography from 1982 to 1996 at Marylhurst College (now Marylhurst University) in Lake Oswego, Oregon. I’ve photographed in Argentina, Austria, Brazil, Canada, China, Cuba, the Czech Republic, Denmark, England, France, Guatemala, Germany, Honduras, Holland, India, Italy, Mexico, Morocco, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, the United States and Uruguay. I’ve had 90 solo shows in Argentina, Brazil, Germany, Italy, Sweden, the United States and Yugoslavia. My work has also been featured in group shows in Canada, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Slovakia, Sweden and the US. Available monographs of my work include three books and a deck of cards. In 1995, I organized a group of a dozen artists who joined me in a nine year long systematic photographic exploration and documentation of the city of Portland. (www.PortlandGridProject.com) My second group of a dozen artists has more than sixty percent completed a second nine year
re-exploration.
In 1997 and 1998, I took three trips to Paris and rephotographed 500 of the images made of that city by Eugene Atget between 1890 and 1927. (LensCulture interview) (Book) I am a co-founder and past president of Photolucida (a Portland photography festival formerly called Photo Americas) (www.photolucida.org). I’m a co-founder, co-curator and Board Chairman of Blue Sky Gallery (www.BlueSkyGallery.org) where, over the last 34 years I have co-curated and
co-produced 664 solo exhibitions and 47 group shows. I am a co-founder and current member of the co-op Nine Gallery and I have edited and produced around 60 art and photography publications.
The above picture is from my opening at the Museu Afro Brasil. It features me, Suzanna Sassoon, a happy museum-goer and Director Emanoel Araujo.

Bio