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Education, Awards and Recognition

  • EDUCATION
    • Long Island University – BA in English
    • Aspen Writers Workshop-Scholarship Fiction Writing
    • School of Visual Arts-NYC- Photojournalism and Human Values (Ken Heyman)
    • New York University –     Certificate in Filmmaking-Summer Intensive

     

  • EMPLOYMENT
    • The Associated Press – 1998 to 2009 – Special Projects/Photo Editor- New York City
    • The Associated Press – Supervising Photo Editor News Features
    • The Associated Press – First full-time woman Staff Photographer for this international newswire service
    • Freelance Photographer –AP, Fortune Magazine, MD Magazine, Opera News, NY Daily
      News, Jersey City Journal, US Information Agency (USIA-D.C.), Rogers Peet Dept. Store
    • Freelance Art Critic – Jersey City Journal
    • Independent Video Producer – SV Productions –“100th Anniversary St. Anne Shrine” NY
    • Editorial Assistant to Victor Riesel, nationally syndicated labor columnist
    • Copy Assistant to Features Editor BRIDE’S Magazine – Conde Nast
    • TV Production Assistant- Public Access Ch.16, “Cable Doctor” & Ch. 34, “Speak Out”

     

  • AWARDS
    • AP Managing Editors Top Feature Photography ’84- “Statue of Liberty Restoration”
    • World Press Photographers – Sports Photography Award – US Open – Manuel Orantes
    • National Press Photographers Assoc., – Portrait “Yul Brynner” and “JFK’s Children”
    • The New York Photographers Assoc.,-
      • 1st Prize-“Centennial Restoration St. Patrick’s Cathedral”
      • 1st Prize- Olympic Games Montreal and L.A
      • 1st Prize- Pres. Reagan’s South American trip;
      • 1st Prize- General News – President Richard Nixon and Pilobolus Dance Company.

       

  • PUBLICATIONS
    Published in BOOKS & Magazines & Newspapers Worldwide

    • “Moments In Time – 50 Years of AP News Photos” – 1985 – 1st Ed. – AP
    • “Moments In Time –  60 Years of AP News Photos” – 1995 – 2nd Ed. – AP
    • “One Day In Our World” – 1985 – AP
    • “The Olympics At 100” -1995 – MacMillan Books
    • “The Sports 100”-1999 – Sports Publishing Inc.
    • “Reflections of the South” – 1991
    • “American Photographers – An American Survey” – 1987
    • “ Who’s Who In Photography” – 1991

     

  • EXHIBITIONS
    • One Woman Shows – 2009-Feb 2010-“Welfare Island: A Spirit of Place Past”- Octagon
      Gallery – Roosevelt Island, NY.
    • 2002 -“9/11-Commemorative Exhibit”-Morning Calm Gallery, NY
    • 1991 – “Jazz Musicians” – Infinity Gallery, NYC
    • 1986 – “Restoring Lady Liberty” – Infinity Gallery, NYC
    • 1972 –“Welfare Island and Other Photographs” – LIU, NYC

     

  • GROUP SHOWS
    • Feb. 2009 – “Dance Theater of Harlem- 40th Anniversary” NYPL of
      Performing Arts, NYC
    • Oct. 2009 –“Stone Carvings of New York” – 75th Anniversary of NY’s
      Cushman Wakefield Real Estate at NYPL 42nd St.
    • 1969 —       “Contemporary Events” – Art Image Gallery, NYC
    • 1969 —        Midtown Y, NYC and Saranac Lake, NY

     

  • LECTURES/POWERPOINTS
    • New York Academy of Sciences-2012- “Mt. Gorillas of Rwanda” and “Arctic Polar of
      Hudson Bay”
    • Pan Pacific S.E. Asian Women’s Assoc., – March 2014 – “Mt. Gorillas of Rwanda” and
      “Arctic Polar Bears of Hudson Bay”
    • New York University – 1997 – Photography lecture – Photography Dept. graduating class
    • Hampshire College – 1995 – “Photo Communications Today” and Portfolio Review
    • Oldcn’s Photography Workshop – 1983 – “Photojournalism/On Assignment” and 1982
      “Photojournalism/On Location”

     

  • AFFILIATIONS
    • American Society of Media Photographers – NYC Chapter
    • International Center of Photography – NYC
    • New York Academy of Sciences – NYC
    • Pan Pacific South East Asia Women’s Association – NYC
    • Citizens Emergency Response Team – (CERT)
    • Africa Wildlife Foundation
    • ASPCA
    • Wild Bird Fund – NYC
    • Wildlife Conservation Society – NYC
    • World Wildlife Fund
    • Ocean Conservancy
    • Audubon Society
    • National Geographic Society
    • Catskill Animal Sanctuary
    • Diane Fossey Gorilla Foundation
    • Jane Goodall Institute
    • Tiger Creek Wildlife Refuge
    • Delta Rescue