I moved to Rogers Park in 1989, the same year I started working as a studio assistant for Paul Elledge Phography. I have lived in the area, uaually along the lakefront since. Prior to that I had lived in Bloomington, Indiana where I studied, among other things, photography, at Indiana University's School of Fine Arts.

In 1991, I started a series of portraits of children along the Loyola Beach lakefront, five of which are shown here. I wanted to use the image of children to express the sadness or disillusion we as adults feel at times. At the same time, an inordinate number of children in Chicago were dying from the result of gang warfare. The fear of violence was keeping many from ever experiencing anything resembling a happy childhood. I purposely used chromatic lighting and the lake as a backdrop to illustrate this idea. This series was partially funded by a CAAP grant from the City of Chicago's Department of Cultural Affairs. I later expanded this series to include friends who had lived in Rogers Park, most of them artists like myself, I chose soft window light and non-descript rooms to depict more of the interior space of an artist's expression.

I currently work as a graphic designer and production artist and from time to time still photograph.