The New York Times
Senior Producer of video series and short documentaries
TIME 100 PHOTOGRAPHS
Series Producer of videos for the project
UNTITLED (COWBOY) (15 mins.) Producer. A short documentary about Richard Prince's appropriation of the Marlboro Man. In 2005, Untitled (Cowboy) sold for $1.2 million at auction, then the highest publicly recorded price for the sale of a contemporary photograph. Prince’s photography helped to create a new art form — photography of photography — that foreshadowed the era of digital sharing and altered our understanding of a photo’s authenticity and ownership. Showed at LACMA in 2017 as part of "Richard Prince, Untitled" Exhibition.
BEHIND CLOSED DOORS (11 mins.) Producer. In this short documentary, the subject of the image reveals her identity and speaks for the first time. Donna Ferrato’s shocking picture of domestic violence unfolding brought the issue of spousal abuse out of the shadows.
SOWETO UPRISING (11 mins.) Producer. On June 16, 1976, thousands of Soweto students in South Africa set out to protest the mandatory Afrikaans-language instruction in their schools. What began as a peaceful protest soon turned into a violent uprising, claiming hundreds of lives across South Africa. Sam Nzima, a photographer for The World, took the photograph of 16-year old Hector Pieterson, who was killed in the Soweto uprising. Reaction to the image forced Nzima into hiding, but suddenly the world could no longer ignore apartheid.
DALI ATOMICUS (5 mins.) Producer. Before Philippe Halsman, portrait photography was often stilted and softly blurred, with a clear sense of detachment between the photographer and the subject. Halsman’s approach, bringing subjects into sharp focus as they moved before the camera, redefined portrait photography and inspired generations of photographers to collaborate with their subjects. As told by Philippe Halsman’s daughter in this short video, this particular image took the ingenuity of the artist Salvador Dali and Halsman — plus some deft cat-throwing — to create this gravity defying scene.
Period. New Paragraph.
Period. New Paragraph. (14 mins.) Director, Producer, Camera. A documentary short that toured festivals in 2016, premiering at Walter Reade Theater in Lincoln Center as part of The New York Jewish Film Festival. Featured in The New York Law Journal.
My father worked as a lawyer for 60 years. When I learned he had to leave his office, I picked up my camera to chronicle this quiet and profound event: one man’s departure from his singular passion. The banal became allegorical as he boxed up a bygone era and stared down retirement and mortality.
