Bio

As a freelance cameraman, I've been privileged to be part of the ABC News Nightline ensemble of journalists headed up by Ted Koppel and Executive Producer Tom Bettag. I DP'd many of their special projects. We covered everything, birth, death, peace, war, climatic catastrophes and volcanoes. Falls from grace and struggles for redemption. Greed and sacrifice. Healing and love.

My passion for and curiosity about all that and more, was sparked early on, likely the result of many family moves about the U.S., Europe and the Far East. As a child, from age seven to age nine, I lived in Hong Kong. At the time my father was working there as a naval architect for Standard Oil, building the first of their super tankers. I quickly became both a thoroughly spoiled colonial brat, living in a nice apartment at a posh Kowloon address, and a totally unsupervised street kid sneaking out, day and night, roaming the streets, alleys and movie houses of Kowloon and HK. The very wealthy lived within a stones throw of the very poor; I spent a good deal of time with both. The streets teemed with the excitement and spice of so many different cultures. It was a crossroads of colorful and often shady characters from around the world all in commercial and social collision on those streets. And me swimming through and absorbing all I could.

Later, as an adult, news hound, and documentary filmmaker, my career took me to the cities and jungles of Africa, Europe, the Middle East, the South Pacific, the Caribbean, Greenland, Russia and South East Asia, on and on interspersed with years of wandering the back roads of the United States rooting out "little" stories of the American people for ABC's "Good Morning America".

My travels and exposure to street level journalism have taught me to listen well because there are many perspectives to most every story and no matter how far one has traveled there are always lessons to be learned.