In 2002 I put together a small portfolio of my photographs from the 80’s and 90’s and dedicated it to Robert, Garry and Joel. Those photographers are still my inspiration today, but I would also have to add Helen, Vivian and Ruth, and of course Elliott.

I’m not unique, I know they have inspired so many of my contemporaries, and I wish I had been able to follow their paths, to photograph every day for the last 30 years, but we make choices and those choices led to other paths. And so my path led to a family and a career in tech, and not focusing on my photography to build an personal archive. I am not sad, or regretful, as I say, we make choices. And photography continues to inspire me every day if I can get out to shoot, and I still try and keep my eye sharp and my vision clear — all these years later.

Living in NYC for many decades was inspiring and it’s where all my heroes lived and worked. I was only lucky enough to meet Robert Frank —when I worked briefly as a PA on his movie “Candy Mountain” , but I followed their work closely and would carry my camera to and from work almost every day. One of my favorite trips was the early morning journey to the Staten Island Ferry before work—it always held an unparalleled, never-ending array of cultures and personalities. However, almost any walk to and from the office, I would encounter moments of absolute wonder, whether on Sixth Ave near 42nd Street, with the construction workers eyeing a woman passing on a summer’s afternoon when I worked at Time, Inc. or chefs taking a break from the French Culinary Institute in Soho when I worked at Razorfish. Moving to Los Angeles in 2005 was a huge transition and it took me a number of years before I could find my way photographing in a city where no one is on the streets.

Regardless of where or when I photograph though, the main theme in my work is summed up perfectly in T.S. Eilot’s phrase: a focus on the “still point in a turning world”, merely to document a moment in time that might go unnoticed or overlooked, but which contains a certain wonder and beauty of our human condition.

One huge change in the last 30 years has been digital photography. And I know, Garry Winogrand would have been thrilled by it: no development, no darkroom, everything visible immediately and on the computer instantaneously, making it so simple to choose what to print, and organized by date, identified by location and content… I wish he was alive to experience it!! And, as these days, so many people are photographing with an an iPhone, it’s not dissimilar to a Leica, in that is unassuming and you don’t need a right angle adapter, as Helen Levitt used, to become almost invisible.

Of course, there’s no replacing a Leica but still, it’s less about the equipment and more about the insight.

So here’s a sampling of the images over the past 35 years and hopefully, now that I have more time, many more to come.