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I photographed for the CETA Artists Project for 2 and a half years. My photography varied. I shot architectural assignments of landmark buildings in the dead of winter in the south Bronx and curated Lehman College’s art’s organization, En Foco, Inc. I photographed the CETA’s residential artists in their residencies which included the Museum of Modern Art and The Kitchen in Soho. The Black Theatre Alliance nonprofit umbrella included dance companies such as Alvin Ailey, Chuck Davis and activities such as the first “Treat Yourself to Dance Africa”. I shot live dance performances for the Black Theatre Alliance and have been photographing live dance performances for over 30 years. I realized way back them I had to learn how to shoot video, because still images couldn’t capture all of the energy this Dance Africa was putting out.
Over the last 30 years I have studied with professional and commercial photographers such as Larry Stewart, Hugh Bell, and Peter Kaplan. I learned commercial still life photographing of jewelry, diamonds and stamp gold earrings from Larry Steward and shared space with Hugh Bell at his studio for a number of years. In the early 80s, I became the first staff African American catalog photographer in the entire state of New Jersey for a catalog company and worked for this commercial for color printing catalog company for a year.
In the mid-eighties I stepped out on my own and got my first studio in a co-op loft building on 42nd Street between 10th & 11th Avenues. My next loft was in Tribeca where I lived for 18 years and raised my two children with my first wife.
Some of my notable clients have been AT&T where I photographed Whitney Houston as the True voice for AT&T and NYNEX which formed from the breakup of AT&T. I was a photographer through all of the mergers of the Baby Bells and shot two advertising campaigns for Verizon for through the Burrell Advertising company. My first ad was with the Senior Manager, Chair and Vice Chair of the Board, and other senior members of Bell Atlantic. My next advertisement was with the 16 most powerful African American female executives in Verizon worldwide. I also used the photographs from the shooting to design and create a hardcover coffee table photo book. For this shooting, I hired a female photographer/assistant who could photograph the women while they were being transformed into high fashion looking executives by the six makeup artists and stylists.
I’ve shot executive portraits for Fortune 100 companies and photographed heads of state and numerous celebrities.