Occupation
Photographer, self employed—Teeksa Photography, 1980—present

Teacher of photography, Harvard University's Landscape Institute, Cambridge Center for Adult Education, 1990—present

Education
Many photographic collaborations with other artists, including an inter-racial photographers' collective in Boston, 1980—present

Workshops in photography, filmmaking, and video at various arts centers, Boston, 1978—present

Informal studies and educational collaborations with Minor White, MIT, 1965—68

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, colleges and universities such as MIT, Harvard, University of Rochester, and Truman College in Chicago

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

Photographic projects previously completed
Nepal, 1980, Bread and Puppet Theater, 1985, Boston Harbor, 1988, South Africa (first version), 1992, American Indians, 1993, Water, 1996, The Elm Tree, 1996, and several pilgrimages, including Auschwitz to Hiroshima, 1997, and 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 (including Itineraries with Laura Soul Brown, at the Boston Public Library, 2002), 1998-2003

Current project
A multiyear project making and showing slide shows and print exhibits about Palestine & Israel : Gaza is Home to One & One Half Million Human Beings, How Do They Live?, The Living Waters of Palestine & Israel, My Trip to Gaza, 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 , a digital slide show about youth-oriented organizations and individuals struggling for peace, justice and security; Occupation: Ordinary Life , a digital slide show based on experiences living thru occupation in the Occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip in September 2004-January 2005; Facts on the Ground , a digital slide show about Palestine and Israel, with images made during November 2003; and Paired Photographs from the Levant , a print show

Teaching Experience

Landscape Institute of Harvard University , photography of the garden and landscape, basic digital photography, 1993-present
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 asthe page layout computer program, Quark XPress, 1990-present
Friends General Conference Gatherings (Quakers), Amherst MA, 1994 and Harrisonburg VA, 1997, "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 and New England Yearly Meeting sessions, Brunswick ME, 1994, "What is Arts Ministry?", Smithfield RI, 2006 & 7, "The Question of Palestine & Israel"
Radcliffe Seminars , 1993 Cambridge MA, landscape photography
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

Grants and honors
Puffin Foundation , grant for Living Waters project, March 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 , 2000, for the cover photo (and layout by staff) used by The Witness magazine; Cambridge Peace Commission , one of their annual Peace & Justice awards, 2000; Eastman Kodak , 1999, product support; Magnum photo collective and agency finalist, 1993; a series of grants from various Quaker funds , 1991--present; Artist Foundation (Massachusetts) grant finalist, 1981 ; Institute of Contemporary Art , Boston, 1978, film retrospective

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