Occupation

• Photographer, self employed—Teeksa Photography, 1980—present
• Teacher of photography, Cambridge Center for Adult Education, 1990—present, Quaker Palestine Youth Program, 2005—present

Education

• Many photographic collaborations with other artists, including an inter-racial photographers' collective in Boston, 1980—present
• Workshops in photography, filmmaking, computer techniques, and video at various arts centers, Boston, 1978—2000
• Informal studies and educational collaborations with Minor White, MIT, 1965—1968
• Graduate studies in mathematics, Tufts University, 1965
• Undergraduate degrees in mathematics and psychology, University of Washington, 1962-65
• Undergraduate studies in engineering, Iowa State University, 1959-62

Photographic experience

• Numerous journeys to Indian reservations, faith communities, and cities, and other countries including Palestine, Israel, South Africa, Bosnia, Cambodia, Vietnam, and the Philippines, often to explore ceremonies, use of land, history, and spiritual perspectives, 1983—present
• Exhibits at the Chicago Cultural Center, Boston Public Library, Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center, national and regional Quaker conferences, Swords into Plowshares Detroit gallery, colleges and universities such as MIT, Harvard, University of Rochester, and Truman College in Chicago
• Slide shows presented in various venues in the South, Midwest, East Coast, and Alaska, 1996-present
• In publications such as Christian Science Monitor, Boston Globe, Progressive Magazine, Boston Herald, National Catholic Reporter, Sojourners, Creation Spirituality, The Witness (winning two awards), Environment Magazine and books
• In collections of Smithsonian Institution, Peabody Museum of Harvard University, and Pusey Museum of Theater History at Harvard
• Independent photographer for conferences, political organizations, schools: clients include Eastern Service Workers Association, Friends General Conference, South Africa Development Fund, South African Partners, Cambridge Center for Adult Education, United Way of Massachusetts Bay, Harvest Food Coop in Boston, Perkins School for the Blind (Watertown Massachusetts—slide shows, video tapes, print displays), Puppeteers of America national festival, Glory Hole Hospitality Center (Juneau Alaska—promotional slide show), and for MIT’s Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Educational Technology Center at Harvard School of Education, Lesley College, American Friends Service Committee, Watertown Free Public Library, First Night in Boston, St. Francis Indian Mission on the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota, and the Fitchburg MA Public Schools

Photographic projects previously completed

• Nepal, 1980
• Bread and Puppet Theater, 1980-present
• Boston Harbor, 1987-1990
• Visions of a New South Africa, 1990-1998
• Mitakuye Oyasin, All my Relations (Native American), 1983-1992
• The Elm Tree, 1996
• Auschwitz to Hiroshima (a Buddhist led pilgrimage), 1995
• On Turtle Island (a pilgrimage about Native people in the United States and Canada), 1995
• One Sky (about historic slavery and contemporary racism, combining images from a pilgrimage retracing the journey of the African-Atlantic slave trade, the deep South, and South Africa
• Itineraries with Laura Soul Brown, Boston Public Library, 1998-2002 c
• Quabbin Reservoir, 1988-present
• Eyewitness Gaza, a video project based on my Gaza photographs, directed by Tom Jackson, 2011
• Eyewitness Gaza (same name as movie and a slide show), a book based on my Gaza photographs, 2012

Current projects

• A multiyear project making and showing slide shows and print exhibits about Palestine & Israel: Tracing the Jordan River, (in process); Female in Palestine; Along the Mediterranean; Eyewitness Gaza; The Matrix of Control; Gaza is Home to One & One Half Million Human Beings, How Do They Live?; The Living Waters of Palestine & Israel; Gaza Steadfast; Gaza Scorched & Stretched; The Hydropolitics of Israel & Palestine; Quakers in Palestine & Israel; In the Steps of the Magi (about a pilgrimage from Jericho to Bethlehem in December 2004); Start Young: Youth Activism in Israel & Palestine (about youth-oriented organizations and individuals struggling for peace, justice and security); Occupation: Ordinary Life; Facts on the Ground; and Paired Photographs from the Levant: 2003—present
• Searching for the Seeds of the New Detroit Miracle, a multiyear project, 2010-present
• Twilight, an exploration of light during the Magic Hour, outside in various neighborhoods, and inside combined with self portraits, 2012-present

Teaching Experience

• Cambridge Center for Adult Education, digital photography, photojournalism, environmental photography, experimental photography, website design, drawing and photographing the human being (co-taught with Stan Edelson), black and white photography, basic and intermediate photography, and a history of photography, as well as the page layout computer program, Quark XPress, 1990-present
• Quaker Palestine Youth Program in Gaza and the West Bank, American Friends Service Committee, numerous photography workshops for young adults, 2005-present
• Al Aqsa University, Gaza, photography, 2008 c
• Jenin Freedom Theater, Jenin refugee camp, West Bank of Palestine, adults and high school age children, 2012
• Participation in the US Social Forum, Detroit, June 2010, 2 workshops and a print exhibit
• Landscape Institute of Harvard University, photography of the garden and landscape, basic digital photography, 1993-2008
• Friends General Conference Gatherings (Quakers), Amherst MA, 1994, Harrisonburg VA, 1997, Johnstown PA, 2008, "Light in Photography," "The Question of Palestine & Israel," "What is Arts Ministry?" (i.e., arts used to heal, reconcile, and invoke), Blacksburg VA, "Photography as Prayer," 2005 c, The Question of Palestine/Israel, 2008
• New England Yearly Meeting sessions, Brunswick ME, 1994, "What is Arts Ministry?", Smithfield RI, 2006-2013, "The Question of Palestine & Israel"
• Watertown High School and Hosmer Middle School, 1983-88, Watertown Massachusetts, photography and writing, as artist-in-residence
• Boston Film-Video Foundation, 1980-82, production and business of media
• Boston College, 1969-78, film production and history, organized film series

Other Relevant Experience

• Design graphics and write for various companies and publications, 1980-present
• Manage a business providing photographic services, Teeksa Photography, 1980-present
• Supervised the Instructional Materials Center at Perkins School for the Blind, Watertown, 1985-90
• Coordinated an educational program at Boston Film-Video Foundation, Boston MA, 1980-82

Grants and honors

• Inspiration for Hope award (for my photography in Palestine-Israel), American Friends Service Committee, 2010
• Puffin Foundation , grant for Living Waters project, 2007
• Keynote address at New England Yearly Meeting (Quakers), "And You Will Be Carried Where You Do Not Wish to Go," 2005
• Polly Bond Award of Excellence (for the cover photo(and layout by staff) used by The Witness magazine, 2000
• Cambridge Peace Commission, one of their annual Peace & Justice awards, 2000
• Eastman Kodak, 1999, product support
• Magnum photo collective and agency finalist, 1993
• Grants from various Quaker funds, 1991-2000
• Watertown (Massachusetts) Arts Lottery Council, 1984-87
• Toronto Super 8 Film Festival, 1980
• Artist Foundation (Massachusetts) grant finalist, 1980-82
• Toronto Super 8 Film Festival, 1980
• Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, 1978, film retrospective

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