Since 1997, I have been photographing in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn. This is an urban setting where people of diverse ages, ethnicities, classes and walks of life intersect, mingle and collide. I seek to honor the human condition through chronicling the moving, and at times humorous, juxtapositions of rich and poor; high taste and high tack; glamour and grit. I use color as a Greek chorus to illustrate spontaneous street scenes in which vivid hue, form, and character coalesce in an instant, creating a moment in time, both joyous and profound. I focus on the culture of place and myth through the lens of ordinary street life, to illustrate the collective unconscious.
