I was trained and employed as a psychiatric social worker and addictions therapist since the late 1980's, and I have been immersed in portrait photography since the early 1990's. It has always been my experience that these arts are largely the same. I have found that the best photographs, like the best therapy, occur when I don't talk too much, when I engage my subject with unconditional acceptance and love, when I let go of my desire for a particular result and rather take my direction from the life that is presented to me. My goal is not to simply record glaring beauty that turns every head but rather to pause long enough that the quiet beauty, that waits almost invisible everywhere one turns, of experience, sadness, kindness, will be revealed. http://citylife.zenfolio.com