I've been shooting and editing films for over forty years. Currently I teach film and video part time at the Academy of Art University, Film and Video division, while continuing to freelance as a Director of Photography, Editor and Video / Filmmaker.

Freelance: After a brief period working as an assistant director for American productions shooting in France, I became a news and documentary filmmaker, ending up at KQED San Francisco during its golden years. From 1968-70 I covered the daily riots at San Francisco State and then UC Berkeley as a cameraman and editor, honing my skills at visual storytelling. The station promoted me to produce, shoot and edit a series of long-form documentaries for PBS, including the highly acclaimed PRIVATE LIVES OF AMERICANS. When the Nixon administration cut PBS to the bone in 1972, I became a freelancer. I shot, edited, and sometimes produced various projects including shooting and editing one of the bicentennial films from Alan Landsburg Productions, COWBOYS AND INDIANS. That documentary work then morphed into commercials and for the last thirty years I've been a Director of Photography for commercials and high-end corporate productions in the San Francisco Bay Area and occasionally for television docudramas and feature films. I shoot all the formats: 35mm and 16mm film, video from HD to HDV to mini-DV.

Academics: Currently, in addition to freelancing, I have authored an advanced online lighting class for the Academy of Art University. I teach there both on-site and on-line. I have also redesigned the syllabi for graduate lighting and graduate Cine 1. I have been a visiting lecturer at the Communication Department, St. Mary's College in Moraga, teaching a class I designed from the ground up (" True Lies: Film Structure & Film Language"). I was President of the Board, Berkeley Montessori School, September 1993-January 1998.

History: I was born in NYC; BA Dartmouth College (American Letters); taught high school English in Beirut Lebanon; studied film for two years in Paris at l'Institut des Hautes Etudes Cinématographiques where I earned the equivalent of an MFA; as a result of living in France and Italy for nine years, and my overseas assignments, I am an experienced traveler in Europe, Middle East, North Africa, Asia, Mexico, and of course the USA.

Cameras I work with: 35mm film cameras, 16mm film cameras, all manner of video cameras from tiny SD and HD cameras to the DVX100b to