I have directed television commercials for Danon Yogurt, and documented my ethnographic series on digital video. I worked for nearly a decade (1985-1994) with Issey Miyake, the Japanese fashion designer, doing men’s wear for the Japanese market and photographed numerous album covers including Bette Midler, Ron Carter, Stanley Turrentine, Isaac Hayes, Essa Pekka Salonen, Chou Liang Lin, Midori, Daryl Hall, Foreigner, Wynton Marsalis, and Yo-Yo-Ma.

I have an extensive doll collection and through their graciousness, have been allowed to photograph their image with 4x5 digital equipment as well as the large 20x24" format polaroids. Other projects include a still life series : "Life Stills" and a large format Polaroid series of Nudes: "Nudes Without Clothing." A book is forthcoming, with the working title: "Social Studies."

I had the major exhibition in the summer of l995 at the Gerald Peters Gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico entitled: "Ethnographic Pictures." The collected work has been exhibited internationally, most recently in Amsterdam, Holland at "Gallery Art and Commerce" as well as the Kurdish portraits from "Social Studies Sixteen" at the Hotel de’ Ville in Paris, France – both in mid-2004. The exhibit "Democracy in America", on the ASU campus, which includes my Presidential Time Magazine covers, opened on August 31, 2004, during the Presidential debates.

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