I'm a New York-born and based photographer. Photography began for me with a Kodak Hawkeye around the age of 7 and got serious when I was 12 and purchased a second-hand Voigtlander Vito C. At 13 I graduated to the venerable Minolta srT101 and proceeded to photograph the turbulent late 1960s and early '70s in New York with special attention to the raucous alternative antics in Central Park.

In the mid to late '70s I worked as an event photographer and had the opportunity to photograph some notable political figures (see the Celebrity gallery).

After an absence of many years I returned to photography in 1999, forsaking film for digital. Initially drawn to images of the South Jersey shore, I quickly returned to capturing the often unobserved minutiae of daily life on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.

Recent projects include the Sidewalks of NY, the small epiphanies of Urban Epiphanies and Broadway Blog, a series of photographs of people living and working on Upper Broadway.

For the most current work, please see my newish daily blog site, obBLOGato.

In addition to all the the images and products you can order here, please don't hesitate to contact me for any custom request you may have. Would you like to order a print in a size not shown here? Order a print that's not available to the shopping cart? Get an image you've seen on my Flickr site or my blog? Simply contact me and I'll try to oblige.