Taking It Day by Day brings together photographs of daily epiphanies and instances of wonderment that I’ve been fortunate enough to experience and capture over a four year period on the streets of New York City, Los Angeles and Costa Rica.

I came to photography by way of object based design and installation art.  I substituted the insularity of my previous studio practice, while dismissing the vagaries and pretensions of the art world industrial complex for a more honest and vastly more personal engagement with my city and the world at large.  It was my good fortune to be born and raised in Spanish Harlem in 1960.  I attended Pratt Institute in Brooklyn from 1978-1982 on a scholarship.  Thankfully I still reside in New York City, alive, engaged and photographing daily.

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