Recent Work
My passion for photography began as a child. As I got older I started out working in photography darkrooms at the local newspaper and for a commercial photographer in town. By the late 1970s, I was on my own contributing work to the Associated Press and then eventually moving on to a series of news photography jobs in New York, Michigan, and Texas. In the late 1980s, I began traveling to Central America to document the lives of refugees and their desire to return home to El Salvador. Later, I spent nearly two years working in Chiapas, Mexico during the Zapatista uprising. Today, I continue to make images, but mostly for myself. As a teacher, my goal is to inspire my students and offer them an opportunity to explore the world in news ways. I know live and work in Atchison, KS and have found that my personal work has changed a great deal. I find myself seeing the world in calmer more reflective space.
