Over the years I have given slide presentations and lectures to many institutions. These include colleges (Temple University, Staten Island University, Williams College); public and private schools (Scotch Plains/Fanwood High School; Newark Academy) and art centers and galleries (Soho Photo, NJ Center for the Visual Arts, Hunterdon Art Center, The International Center for Photography). I have spoken on television for New Jersey's Channel 12, CN8, and Cablevision.

My slide presentations are designed to raise awareness, to educate and to inspire.

According to my audience, I put more emphasis on the art of photography or sociology, but I include both in all of my presentations.

Sometimes I speak for one hour and answer questions for another hour, but that of course is always modified depending on the time allotted.

I discuss my dropping out of school at 15 and earning my G.E.D at 37, and then going on to graduate cum laude in studio art, earning a masters degree in visual sociology and then teaching as a college professor. This journey inspires and helps others to realize the potential in all of us.

My journey as a painter and signing up for a photography class to learn how to use my camera in order to take better pictures of things that I wanted to paint changed my life. That is an important point as we often think we are going in one direction and then if we are open--we can read something or hear something or do something and be shifted entirely onto another road. A lesson in not knowing and the adventure of taking a risk, overcoming fear, and following one's heart.

The slides show families who I have become involved with for over twenty years, as well as areas where I have documented over the past three decades. I have various themes. For example, WATCHING CHILDREN GROW. How the DEMOLITION OF 322 taught me to see design relationships clearer. HOW CHILDREN PLAY, and sometimes including slides from GUATEMALA, and MAINE.

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