The Black Madonna & Women: 

The Black Madonna is an icon with a presence throughout the world.  One asks

        why  she is black.  The answer for me is that she represents the other side, the
        earth, the  mysterious and sensuous side of life, a needed balance to the Virgin
        Mary - ideally good and pure - and therefore often quite remote.  Several years
        ago I began visiting sites of The Black Madonna.  I not only felt the connection
        of this Icon to my own personal life but to the living being - contemporary woman.  

        As a result, I understood more clearly my desire to photograph women and the
        feminine energy.  

 

     Kosovo - After the War, 1999:  

Photography, under the auspices of the United Nations

 
     Project in Progress:  
 

Three Friends:
Exploring the ties of a long friendship between 3 women - seen through the eyes
        of 2 sons.
 

     Monoprints:

The monoprint process is connected to my love of design, the fascination of a
        puzzle, and to a certain skewed view of life.

          To make a monoprint, I print out my photographs on thin Japanese Misu
        paper.   As this paper is very transparent, I collage the images, put the pieces
        through a large press, achieving a one-of-a-kind monoprint.