Selected Works

In the winter of 2004, I had the good fortune to witness, experience and photograph maple syrup season in south central Pennsylvania. The season is relatively short, lasting maybe two months (generally February and March in southern Pennsylvania) and is highly dependent on the weather. Although most independent maple syrup producers are farmers and do it to supplement their income outside of the growing season, making maple syrup is rich in family tradition. It is a practice carried forward from one generation to the next and almost always involves the entire family. This photo essay follows the process from early preparation to the final product on the shelves for sale.

It was by chance that I traveled to Nicaragua in August 2006. My primary purpose at the time was to meet a Cuban friend of mine, José Bienvenido Martinez, who was supposed to visit Managua on business and whom I had not seen in six years due to the severely tightened travel restrictions put in place by the Bush administration. I decided to go to Nicaragua a week or so before Bienvenido to explore and photograph. Although his trip was canceled at the last minute, it was my good fortune that he introduced me to a friend of his, Guillermo Cortes, the editor of Medios y Mensajes. Guillermo allowed me to accompany him while he conducted research in several remote areas of Nicaragua for a novel he was working on.

Photographs of Chile from the Atacama Desert in the north to the mystical island of Chiloe in the south taken on two month-long visits two years apart.

This selection of photographs is from a larger body of work called "La Mezcla" (The Mix) for an exhibition at Galeria Carmen Codoceo in La Serana, Chile in 2002. The September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States occurred in the middle of this project.

Photographs of Cuba during the latter half of the "Special Period", designated by Fidel Castro due to the severe economic hardship following the fall of the Soviet Union.