Welcome to my website.
I am not going to bore you with some convoluted artist statement that is 95% bullshit, padded with long, difficult words to appear more intelligent, so below you’ll find some short musings on my work.
My photos are the punchline of a slightly cynical joke. The images may not be of the most glamorous, romanticized vision of your New York. These images are of my New York, the city I love.
I have been told I have a pessimistic view of the world, but to me the photos are comical. This is the city I live in, it is the slightly sad, but highly amusing truth. The objects, images and subjects are going to exist whether or not I am there, and my photographs are going to exist whether or not I show them to you.
There is so much material out in the streets of this city. I am serving as your tour guide, showing you the rarely noticed, yet blatant sights that are on display for all to see.
Have you ever stopped to see what a payphone, doorway, and parking meter is telling you? There is a whole world of communication that goes unnoticed and ignored every single day.
Take the time and look at the details.
I received a BFA in Photography and a Master of Library and Information Science degree from Pratt Institute.
Exhibitions and Art Fairs:
Freak Bar bathroom| Coney Island USA, Brooklyn, NY= Ongoing
Banned Book Week | Group Show | Valley Cottage Library, Valley Cottage, NY- 2023
Lensless Photography | Group Show | Pratt Photography Gallery, Brooklyn, NY- 2022
The Art of Coney Island | Group Show | Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, Brooklyn, NY- 2021
#ICPConcerned: Global Images for Global Crisis | Group Show | International Center of Photography, New York, NY- 2020
Priority Mail: Our 2019 Mail Art Biennial | Group Show | Ground Floor Gallery, Brooklyn, NY- 2019
Cultural Traffic booth | ComplexCon, Chicago, IL- 2019
Pratt Photography Senior Show | Group Show | Pratt Photography Gallery, Brooklyn, NY- 2019
Everything Is Going Wrong But We’re So Happy | Solo Show | Pratt Photography Gallery, Brooklyn, NY- 2019
Ilanot | Group Show | Hadas Gallery, Brooklyn, NY- 2018
Sodom by the Sea Salon | Group Show | The Coney Island Museum, Brooklyn, NY- 2015
Brighton Beach Pictured | Group Show | Brighton Beach Business Improvement District, Brooklyn, NY- 2014
Exhibition Catalogs and Books:
Valley Cottage Library Banned Book Week trading cards | 2023
#ICP Concerned: Global Images for Global Crisis | 2021
The Art of Coney Island | 2021
News Publications:
2019
CBS New York “Time Out New York's End Of Summer Things To Do”
2018
Brooklyn Paper “Bribe and groom: Growth and graft are key to beard competition”
2017
Brooklyn Paper “Five things to do in Brooklyn, Sept. 1–7”
Brownstoner “A Conversation With Dick Zigun, Coney Island’s Unelected Mayor”
2016
The New York Times “Around Town for Sep. 2-8”
Metro “Avatar' musical, beard contest and more things to do in NYC on Labor Day weekend”
Brooklyn Paper “Carnies get classy: Sideshow school teaches fire breathing and more”
The Golden Smile show at the Edmonton Fringe Festival promotional materials
2015
The Forward “The Life and Death and Life of Coney Island”
The Daily News “In the Now: A furry face-off at the Coney Island Beard and Mustache Competition”
The Village Voice “Step Right Up to Learn Sideshow Tricks From Coney Island’s Finest”
Pix11 “Preview: Eighth Annual Coney Island Beard and Mustache Competition”
2014
FeatureShoot “30 Photos That Capture the Weird and Wonderful World That is Coney Island”
2013
Altoona Mirror “Classic Spectacle”
2012
The Village Voice “Voice Choices”
Time Out New York “New York Variety All-Stars”
Dan’s Paper “Burlesque Comes to Vail-Leavitt”