Born and raised on the South Side of Chicago, I worked for many years as a commercial photographer, doing catalog, advertising, and editorial work. Over the course of my career I acquired and honed skills in studio photography and digital imaging, which I now employ in the creation of more personal imagery.
In my work I strive to evoke emotional and psychological truths by creating enigmatic, dream-like scenes steeped in symbolism. They depict impossibilities, paradoxes, and incongruities, but all rendered with precise, seamless realism. I’m inspired by the Surrealists, as well as by Renaissance art.
Ideas for my images are sparked in a number of different ways, and each evolves as I weave them together from the raw materials of my photos and my imagination. Experimenting with different combinations of image elements until they take on a life of their own, I then begin the exacting detail work of making the impossible seem believable.
I live with my beautiful and inspiring wife on a steep hill in San Francisco, near our children and grandchildren.
Many of my images are available as limited edition prints from 
Saatchi Art. Printed on 13X19 inch sheets of Canson Platine Fibre Rag, an archival fine art paper, they’re signed and numbered on the print below the image, and on an accompanying Certificate of Authenticity.
