Born in the city’s Old First Ward, he grew up in the shadow of this once-thriving industrial zone. He studied photography in high school and joined the Air Force as a photographer in 1965. The position brought him to Thailand in 1969; he then returned many times later as a civilian to document the local population. His work was shown in various exhibitions in the 1970s and 1980s, after which he abandoned the artform until the advent of digital photography in the early 2000s. Since then he has exhibited work at the Albright Knox Art Gallery, Impact Artists Gallery, Art Dialogue, and Buffalo Big Print (all located in Buffalo), among other venues. [1]