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Smoke is a fine metaphor for my art. After smoke accidently entered a photograph I began playing with this and found success using reverse imaging in post-production.

There is a new controversial science known as reverse speech. Reverse speech is identified as one of the two forms of human communication automatically generated by the brain. When forwards speech is recorded and then played backwards, the clear audible words and sentences that can be heard amongst the standard gibberish are known as reverse speech. I have found that visual communication offers an expression of the same underlying mechanism.

For most of these images my intentions were very clear. I had experimented with smoke a dozen times and knew about these possible resonances (the creation of faces and such), so I intended strong images that were portraits, even as I made no effort to control how that would happen. This series exemplifies how the invisible and the unconscious manifest in my images.

In 1978 I purchased a camera. In the early 80s my work was published, exhibited and purchased for the collection of the Standard Oil Company. My first solo show debuted in 1985.
I received a BA in Film from Columbia College in 1980.
My videos were exhibited at major festivals from 2003 to 2007. One video was nominated for the Golden Gate Award at the 47th San Francisco Int’l Film Festival.
2019: Gold Winner, 2018 Moscow International Foto Awards, Silver Winner Tokyo International Foto Awards for series "Fabric on the Dock", Seven nominations at the 5th Annual Fine Art Photography Awards, Finalist in Circle Foundation for the Arts’ Artist of the Year Competition, Exhibited at Transformations - 2019, Pennsylvania Center for Photography and In Motion exhibit at Photography Center of Cape Cod, and published in two hardcover art books: Tusis, Manipulated Images, a Dek Unu book, and the 7th International Photography Annual Publication at Manifest Gallery.
2017-2018: Exhibited twice in Rome, Italy, once in Belgrade, Serbia, and had ten works from the series Obscure Reveal exhibited at a Florida museum.