How it all started .. .

At the end of senior year in high school, the student art show had an ink drawing of the Dorothea Lange photograph known as Peapicker’s Wife. My first thought after seeing the drawing was I can take pictures like that. I began to believe I could take pictures that explain social conditions better than words could. and decided to go to Harlem. After two years and two months photographing New Haven’s ghettos with a Polaroid Swinger and an occasional Asahi Pentax, marriage to a Columbia University graduate student got me to New York City.