For more than 45 years, I’ve enjoyed taking photos both personally and professionally. The Rock’n Roll Retrospective Gallery combines my love for live music and photography. When I was a newspaper photographer in the late 1970’s, no one was assigned to write about music or to photograph concerts. So I volunteered.

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Shooting in black & white was how I began, and it’s what I enjoy best.  Robert Frank’s images in his epic book “The Americans” and Spider Martin’s Civil Rights-era photographs offered a host of inspiration.  20 years ago, I began traveling to the Deep South, primarily to Selma and Montgomery, Alabama. I became friends with Selma native Frank Hardy, who ran the Selma Youth Development Center  literally across the tracks in low income East Selma.  It was there I built long-term relationships with the people photographed in the gallery Selma, Alabama: Forgotten America.

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The Selma photos portray children and teenagers whose lives were positively influenced by Frank and his Youth Center. You’ll see that they have hearty laughs and broad smiles, despite facing challenging circumstances.