I started my career as a photojournalist in
1969. For nine years I photographed in China, Iran, East Africa, India
and Europe, was published in numerous newspapers and magazines, and
was represented by Black Star. I stopped working professionally from
1978 to 1988 when my children were small. When I resumed my career,
I concentrated on portraits, where I have looked for ways to evoke
the mystery of a subject through expression, pose and relationship
to the background. I am particularly interested in photographing writers
and artists. There is always something at work in the eyes of the creative
mind and I try to discover what it is. I have worked for most publishing
houses in New York and London.
I resumed photojournalism in 1997, and started
writing travel articles to accompany my photographs. My travel articles
have been published in The New York Time, Travel and Leisure, and The
Traveller. I am drawn to indigenous cultures. I want to record ways
of life that are rapidly disappearing, and in the process explore the
visual relationship of customs and ethnic dress to nature and to the
history of the culture.
