My artwork is content driven and based in photography, often
incorporating text. I make groups of works about specific issues —disease,
violence, hatred, anti-Semitism, child abuse, psychiatric drugs for children,
racial and social inequality, the Holocaust, 9/11 and immigration. I look at all
of these issues as particular and personal concerns that spiral into the political
and general social realm. I've created installations using combinations of
images on paper and other materials. I've explored the subjects such as:
contemporary immigration, the Holocaust, personal narratives, through
groups of altered books, combining images and mixed media into sculptural
objects. I've made handmade books of paper lithographic prints with digital
photos and sewing about the legacy of slavery.
I studied art (primarily painting, drawing and printmaking) in college and
graduate school. I'm a self-taught photographer and work as an art teacher in
an urban school district in New Jersey.