As a little kid I was passionate about pottery and photography. At 18, I left home for Alfred University, a school that had the best ceramic arts department in the country. While I loved the pottery classes, it snowed from October to May and the college was in the middle of nowhere!

  So, I hightailed it out of there and went to George Washington University which was affiliated with the fabulous Corcoran School of Art. Besides liberal arts courses, I took a class in pottery and one in photography. But D.C. was full of politicians and lawyers who supported the Vietnam war. My dorm room was 4 blocks from The White House and “Tricky Dicky” ( President Richard Nixon ). This was too close for comfort, so I skedaddled out of there as well.

    I transferred into New York University School of the Arts and there I found my home. After graduating with a BFA in film and television, I was incredibly lucky to land a job on a James Ivory/ Ismail Merchant feature film.

   I lived on the infamous St. Marks Place block between 2nd. and 3rd. Avenues, in a $54 / month rent controlled apt. with a bathtub in the kitchen and a pull chain toilet. Sometime during the 70’s I left my beloved rent controlled studio apt. on St. Marks Place and moved to a big Loft on the corner of 4th Street and Second Avenue, just off The Bowery. It was a four floor walk- up above a refrigerator store that was equidistant between Electric Circus, CBGB’s of Punk Rock fame, the Hell’s Angels and Bill Graham’s legendary Fillmore East Rock’n Roll venue. One day I picked up my cameras, walked around the corner to the Filmore East and got promission to shoot Ike and Tina Turner. Those photographs became the cover and inside of their 1970/71 US tour booklet and that was my introduction to the wonderful, wild, and weird world of rock and roll.

As a young girl in my 20’s, I felt as if I was living in the center of the Universe and for years I felt I had no need to go above 14th street. The loft which had an enormous North facing skylight, was my first photography studio. I worked a lot with professional models doing editorial fashion, beauty and nudes when I wasn’t on the road photographing the rock and roll greats of the 70s and 80s.