I take many of my pictures with an iPhone because it's quick and always in my pocket.

I also have a good DSLR with interchangeable lenses that I lug around with me when I'm likely to see something I like.

My first camera was a Kodak Instamatic. I still have some of those square prints of Read more...

I take many of my pictures with an iPhone because it's quick and always in my pocket.

I also have a good DSLR with interchangeable lenses that I lug around with me when I'm likely to see something I like.

My first camera was a Kodak Instamatic. I still have some of those square prints of the 1964 World's Fair in New York. They are incredibly boring.

In college, I made my own pinhole camera, but mostly I used my dad's old Leica and learned how to develop and print my own photos.

Later, I built a darkroom in my TriBeCa loft and worked only in black and white for many years. Edit Deak offered to represent me as an art photographer if I switched to color, but I wasn't interested. That was a mistake.

I made a living as a professional photographer for about 10 years, working commercially and artistically. I kept technical notes in small notebooks I still have somewhere, which are useful because they include the shooting dates.

Now almost all of my photos are digital, color, and taken purely for my own interest and that of others. I crop and adjust exposure but don't bother with Photoshop or other postshot manipulation. Which is fine, but not for me.

I split my time between city and country: New York and Long Island.