About
As a half Japanese, half Polish, only child who grew up in rural Massachusetts in the 1960s, I have always been an outsider and I still carry that perspective. We were the freak family of the town. But my father was ahead of his time having an Asian wife, mixed race child, Weimaraner dog, and a passion for organic gardening.
I liked science and I liked art but art won and I moved to New York City in 1978 to study painting. During that time I developed an interest in photography on the side. Eventually I would end up with a career on the business side of photography, at first licensing stock photos in the early 1990s to managing the photography for one of the world’s largest news organizations for the last 14 years.
After a corporate reorganization in late 2016, my dream job was eliminated and like many others who find themselves in this situation, had to embark on a new period of reinvention and resilience. Along the way I have met inspiring people, learned new things and hope to continue to keep moving.