Photo: Steve Hall

As an architectural photographer, I see my job as a designer of photographs, composing images around designs I confront. It is the process of making photographs that exploit beauty in design that keeps me intrigued. In 1979, I graduated from RISD with a BFA in photography. After college, I returned to Chicago and began working as Bill Hedrich’s assistant. I went on camera in 1984 and was made Principal & Partner in1992. In 2010, I became President, splitting my time between managing the business and photographing. Through the years, I’ve lectured and given gallery tours for our studio. In 2004, I was a judge for Contract Magazine’s “Decade of Design” competition. In 2006, I was asked to judge the International Juried Exhibition of Architectural Illustration. One of my favorite lectures was given at the University of Chicago on the subject of photographing Frank Lloyd Wright buildings. Many of the assignments I’ve performed for clients have won awards, and my work has been widely published. The photographs I made of Mies van der Rohe’s Farnsworth House are in the permanent collect ion of the Museum of Modern Art. Three images I made at the Frank Lloyd Wright Home & Studio in Oak Park, IL were recently shown in the Guggenheim show, “Frank Lloyd Wright – From Within Outward.”