About me

In 1987 I decided that I wanted to have more control over my images and moved from the streets into the studio. I needed to learn more about creating images rather than just capturing them as they happened. My background in photojournalism served me well when it came to composition and mood. In the early days of studio work I spent many hours learning the subtleties of working with studio strobes and high-end cameras. The sense of the moment that I had developed while shooting news pictures could be seen in the scenes I was creating in the studio, now with carefully controlled lighting and composition. Over the next few years I worked for studios shooting toys, kids, annual reports, washing machines, buildings, medical devices, and particle accelerators to name just a few things. During this period I was often on planes 3 or 4 days a week and shot assignments all over the US and Europe. It was a busy and exciting time for me. In 1990 I opened my own studio in Boston's South End working on corporate, editorial and commercial assignments.

My work in erotic photography started a short time later when I began to ask girlfriends, friends and the occasional random stranger to pose nude for me. It was nice to shoot with people I already knew well and I still have some of those early sessions in my portfolios. I started shooting bondage and fetish work in 1991 when an exotic dancer brought a dominatrix to my studio to pose with her. We shot for a few hours and got some really great images, all in black and white. I started to show these around to some of the people in the bondage scene in Boston and they liked them. I began to shoot more bondage and fetish images while continuing to work on his regular commercial projects. As time went on I met many people in the Boston fetish scene through friends at Hubba Hubba, a fetish store in Boston, who helped me with clothing, props and introductions to prospective models. in 1999 I began to submit work to publishers in the US and Europe. As the web became more popular it became easier and easier to find and reach publishers who would be interested in my work. Magazines like Skin Two, Secret, Prometheus and Schlagzeilen began to publish my work on a regular basis. I slowly gained some notoriety in bondage and fetish communities all over the world. Soon my work was being featured in magazines and books as well as many web sites. Although I had shown my work in galleries around Boston before, 2003 marked my first foray out of the Boston gallery scene with a group show in Chicago and a solo show of my work in New York.

In 2004 I began to shoot my most recent series that would become the book Real Girls published by Goliath in 2006. This series is a departure from my usual fetish and bondage work and focuses on the natural beauty of the 'Girl Next Door'. This work began as a series of jobs for pin-up websites like SuicideGirls.com and ManicJane.com but I quickly saw a style emerging in the work and I really liked it. Over the next 18 months I shot models in my studio, in abandoned buildings, hotel rooms and on location in some of the most beautiful homes on Boston's North Shore. I like to think that my images capture the innocent beauty of my models, while creating that moment that I have always seen in my mind. My background in photojournalism can still be seen in my work.