A graduate in English literature, he studied photography with Hungarian photographer Michael Simon.
Moving to Italy in 1973, he worked as a journalist writing for Art Forum and Newsday, and pursuing his photographic research.
His first book Perugia terra vecchia terra nuova was published in 1981.
From 1986 to 2003 he was technical-photographic manager of Fratelli Alinari in Florence, for which he conducted photographic campaigns throughout Italy published in numerous volumes.
He has participated in numerous exhibitions both in Italy and the United States, and his works are part of various collections including those of the Metropolitan Museum in New York, the George Eastman House in Rochester, the Houston Museum of Fine Arts, the Bibliothèque Nationale and the Maison Européenne de la Photographie in Paris.
