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 photography and art from 1982 to 1996 at Marylhurst University in Lake Oswego, Oregon.

I’ve had 132 solo shows in 8 countries (Argentina, Brazil, England, Germany, Italy, Sweden, the United States and Yugoslavia). My work has also been featured in group shows in 9 countries (Canada, China, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Slovakia, Sweden and the US). Available monographs of my work include three books, 27 print-on-demand books and 2 decks 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 completed a second nine year re-exploration and round four is now in progress.

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)

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 50 years, I have co-curated and co-produced over 1000 exhibitions. I am a co-founder and current member of the co-op Nine Gallery. I have edited and produced around 200 art and photography publications.  In 2003, I was the Bonnie Bronson Fellow.

My work is held in the collections of 13 major museums.