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WORK HISTORY |

11/06 - PRESENT | Still Photographer

Specializing in commercial, fine-art, and portraiture photography

7/05 - 11/06 | Still Photographer

product photography | web design | internet sales

New England’s largest broadcast equipment rental and sales company, Rule Broadcast Systems

1/88 – 4/03 | Owner, yardBird media

freelance dp | lighting-cameraman | director/producer

Provider of turn-key production services to high-end network and corporate clients

4/77 - 12/87 | Staff Cameraman | NBC News | Boston bureau     

senior staff bureau cameraman

Responsible for coverage of New England, eastern Canada, Bermuda for The Today Show, NBC Nightly News, network documentaries, and news specials

4/74 - 4/77 |  Staff Cameraman | NBC News | Washington bureau

staff bureau cameraman | Assigned to the White House | 10/75-1/77

The 1976 Presidential campaigns of Jimmy Carter and Gerald R. Ford were the first to be documented using electronic camera technology.  This Presidential campaign season marked the birth of Electronic Journalism.  One of the twelve cameramen (2 from each network) who, despite first generation technical issues, poor equipment reliability, and extreme weight, succeeded in this journalistic milestone.

ABC NEWS

NBC NEWS

CBS NEWS

PBS DOCS

ABC SPORTS 

    

60 MINUTES

20/20

DATELINE/NBC

FRONTLINE

NBC SPORTS

    

ABC NEWS DOC. UNIT

A & E BIOGRAPHY

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

THE DISCOVERY CHANNEL

ABC NEWS / TURNING POINT

    

DISNEY CHANNEL

APPLE COMPUTER

CRONKITE/WARD Co.

THE HISTORY CHANNEL

CNN/NEWSTAND

    

JOHNSON & JOHNSON

FORD MOTORS

BARBARA WALTERS SPECIALS

LEHRER NEWSHOUR

HARPO PRODUCTIONS

 
 

  1. •1998 - Washington DC Chapter EMMY Award – Director of Photography

  2. •1995 - The Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for Coverage of the Disadvantaged

  3. •1993 - National News and Documentary EMMY Award - Producer

  4. •1990 - Washington DC Chapter EMMY Award – Director of Photography

  5. •1987 - N.P.P.A. Finalist – Magazine Feature

  6. •1985 - N.P.P.A. Feature - Honorable Mention

  7. •1984 - B.P.P.A. News Feature - 1st Place

  8. •1984 - National News and Documentary EMMY Award – Director of Photography

  9. •1983 - B.P.P.A. Television Special - 1st Place

  10. •1983 - N.P.P.A. Editing Excellence Award

  11. •1983 - N.P.P.A. Feature - 3rd Place

  12. •1982 - B.P.P.A. Magazine Feature - 1st Place

  13. •1980 - N.P.P.A. Spot News - 2nd Place

  14. •1980 - National News and Documentary EMMY Award – Producer/Director of Photography

    NPPA • National Press Photographers Association       BPPA • Boston Press Photographers Association

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CLIENTS|

*Top photo courtesy... Mary Ellen Mark

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