My relationship to making photos has come full circle. My earliest work was as a child taking art classes in New York City. In time, I was introduced to photography, enjoying hours printing photos in the darkroom. The importance of the civil rights movement launched me to meaningful decades of social justice activism. I witnessed desperate rural poverty on a scale similar to the extreme poverty and health disparities I witnessed in NYC, Cleveland, Newark, N.J. and other cities where I have lived. On a scholarship, I returned to college and became a nurse, working in emergency rooms in New York City and in Newark, NJ. This was at the dawn of the HIV/AIDS pandemic, when the deaths of so many young men and women carved indelible memories. Becoming a nurse practitioner provided the skills to enhance my nursing practice. I went on to gain my doctorate and become an educator and HIV prevention nurse scientist, privileged for this work to be funded by the National Institutes of Nursing Research at NIH. It was a bold decision to move to Massachusetts, but perhaps a good one.

Thirsting for a creative outlet, I once again turned to photography. My first immersion into digital photography and the Cape was at the Cape Cod Art Center in Barnstable. Master photographers returned me to my path. These include: John Tunney with his magnificent seascapes, the late Ron Wilson with his landscape panoramas, and others. It was at the Cultural Center of Cape Cod where I met and studied with photographer, Julia Cumes, and my world opened wider. A mentorship with Alison Shaw led to the realization that I had become a photographer. I began studies in black and white photography with Chuck Kimmerle. My work has been exhibited online and in show at the Cape Cod Art Center and Cultural Center of Cape Cod. I am also a juried fine art photographer at the Cape Cod Art Center. It is my hope that these photos may bring about a sense of how connected we humans are to all that is nature.