I am a native born Nashvillian.  I graduated from Cameron High School, Nashville, and Fisk University, Nashville.
I discovered my love for photography when I took a class in photography at Fisk from Robert (Bobby) A. Sengstacke. Bobby in addition to teaching was also working as a photographer for the  Chicago Daily Defender, Ebony, Jet, and other major publications, and he taught us, in addition to the technical requirements of great photographs,  to always carry a camera and record life as it happens. 

My professional career began while I was still a student, when I was hied by the Kennedy Learning Center at Peabody College (now Vanderbilt University) after its Grand Opening. Later, I affiliated with Gamma/Liaison Picture Agency and worked as a free-lancer with local organizations and publications in Nashville, such as the Race Relations Information Center, South Today, and the Tennessean, as well as major national publications, Newsweek, Time, Business Week, New York Magazine, Ebony, and The New York Times.

I was one of the first photographers to get to Graceland when Elvis died; I covered Pope John Paul II when he made the first Papal visit to America, and I photographed Muhammad Ali and George Foreman's Rumble in the Jungle.  And, all the while I was walking the neighborhoods and shooting street photography as Professor Sengstacke had taught us to do.

This gallery presents the photographs of life as I saw it in Nashville and around the world between 1968 and 1982.

Thank you for stopping by,