In 1951, at the age of nineteen, a friend and I immigrated to Canada, a new country that was to be very good to me.

On first arrival, I spent a couple of years roughing it in Northern B.C., and 7 years as a professional photographer, I opened my design company which specialized in museum work.  This career as a museum designer expanded to an international scale and required a lot of travelling.  Seeing many lands, from the tropics to the Arctic Circle provided much inspiration.  For a particular project I had to take up scuba diving which opened up yet another world.  So fantastic was the experience that I had my wife and three of our four children join in.

These visual experiences have a major influence on my work and photography.

In the mid Fifties I began photographing the figure.  Soon the nude alone was not satisfying to me.  I felt it had no great artistic value by itself, but could be developed later into a composition with more depth and meaning.