Editorial Photography, 1985 to 2000

  • Feature stories photographer for international travel and architecture publications including; Travel and Leisure, National Geographic Traveler, Life Magazine, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Architecture, Geo, Metropolis.

  • Assignments  with accomplished writers; SaulBellow, Jan Morris, Calvin Trillin and Diane Ackerman.

  • 101 feature story photography assignments and 31 magazine covers

Selected Awards

1992

  • Communications Arts, award of excellence

  • The Pacific Asia Travel Association, Special Commendation

  • Society of Publication Designer, feature story award

1993

  • Society of American Travel Writers Foundation, Lowell Thomas Award for best best color photography Paradise photo-essay for Travel Holiday

  • American Photography, photographic excellence award

  • Communication Arts, award of excellence

  • Magazine Week, image of the week

  • National Magazine Award, finalist

  • Society of Publication Designers, 28th Annual award of merit

1994

  • Society of American Travel Writers Foundation, Lowell Thomas Award for best best black and white photography Winter in Tuscany written by Saul Bellows for Travel Holiday

  • Primio Internazionale Barbi Colombini award for the best photography of the Montalcino and Val d’Orcia region of Tuscany

  • Graphis travel photograph award

Dionysus Press 2002 to 2010

  • Letterpress printed and bound by the artist is a series limited edition books. They are in private, university and museum artist and rare book collections.

  • The Whitney Museum of Art

  • Getty Research Institute

  • The Flaxmann Library of the Art Institute of Chicago

  • University of Pittsburgh

  • Carnegie Mellon

  • UCLA

  • University of Iowa

  • Arizona State University

  • Smithsonian artist book collection

  • Notre Dame University, Devers Program in Dante Studies

  • Stanford University

Photography Grants

  • Eastman Kodak Grant, funding for the artist printing of 34 large format dye-transfer prints, 1982

  • Pittsburgh Foundation, funding for exhibit at the Mattress Factory Museum, 2005

  • Graham Foundation, funding for travel and production of a photo-essay comparing Italian Hilltowns to American Small towns, 1985

  • Graham Foundation, funding for research, travel and photography for a book on the Italian architect Terragni, 1987

Corporate Commissions  and collections

  • Mellon Bank; Commission photography portfolio entitled Banking and Architecture, 17 artist printed dye-transfer prints, 1982

  • PPG Industries; Commission photography portfolio on the PPG Place by Philip Johnson, 1984

Permanent Collections

Carnegie Museum of Art

Heinz Architectural Center

International Center of Photography

Butler Institute of American Art

Centro studi e archivio della comunicazione, Parma

Selected Group Shows

Cityscapes First place award, juried by Duane Michaels, 1982

Gothic Architecture University of Pittsburgh, second place award, juried by the art history faculty, 1983

Expo Arte Fotographia Bari, Italy, 1985

International Exhibition The Center and Archive of Communications, University of Parma, Italy, 1986

Pittsburgh Photography Carnegie Museum of Art, 1987

Marsico and Perrott Blatent Image Gallery (now know as Silver Eye) two person show, 1987

Acquisitions The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington,D.C. 1989

Assignment  Silver Eye Center for Photography, working editorial photographers, 2002

-Keystone.1 Silver Eye Center for Photography inaugural biennial, 2011