I grew up in the shadows of New York City, where I first turned to a camera in the early 1990s. While in high school, with my parents’ 35mm Yaschica Electro 35 in tow, I shot the urban landscape of the pre-Giuliani era. Although those negatives are long gone, images of “old” New York lay fresh in my memory. Photographing and documenting the disappearing landscapes of the northeast became my true calling while I pursued historic preservation in college. At the time, a job as a Historical Researcher at a Cultural Resource Management firm in NJ firmly placed a camera in my hands. I researched, wrote and documented with photographs many buildings which were destined for the wrecking ball. Documentary photographer Walker Evans proved to be an early influence. Many of my photographs taken during this time decorated the company’s booths and associated ephemera during Preservation conferences.
What started as a teenage collection of antique picture frames morphed into a full-time antiques business after I left the world of preservation in the early 2000s. Within months of this change, I found myself a dealer on the elite antiques marketplace 1stdibs.com.
Ironically, my first sale as an antique dealer in New York City was four of my own framed photographs. Today I continue to deal in fine art and antiques with a particular focus on American Art and Design of the Interwar Period (1918-1939). It is the artists and designers of this period that influence my work as a photographer.
What started as a teenage collection of antique picture frames morphed into a full-time antiques business after I left the world of preservation in the early 2000s. Within months of this change, I found myself a dealer on the elite antiques marketplace 1stdibs.com.
Ironically, my first sale as an antique dealer in New York City was four of my own framed photographs. Today I continue to deal in fine art and antiques with a particular focus on American Art and Design of the Interwar Period (1918-1939). It is the artists and designers of this period that influence my work as a photographer.