Worked in the elevator service business since 1965. Married since 1969. Vietnam Vet 1967-68. I've taken pictures all my life.

"Going outside and meeting the challenge of taking what is, and making it your's, that what photography does for me. It's not the subject so much as my perception of the subject."

Roy DeCarava, Harlem photographer

"It doesn't have to be pretty to be true, but if it's true. it's beautiful. Roy Decarava, Harlem photographer

"The thing that intrigues me about photography is what I like to call fictional reality. The camera allows one to create a world, from scratch or from found elements and environments, and to present such a world as reality, bound by the dimensions of a frame. No photograph guarantees verisimilitude, only a suggestion of truth. You'll never know what was edited, or what the greater context was from a single frame. What you know is what you have been given, and your only responsibility is to accept or reject. The fulfillment of this "conversation" is immeasurable for the photographer; it is the reason why everything hasn't been said with the camera. It is the reason why photography continues to provide stimulus at all levels of society" Brian Day, Photographer, Detroit

"Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."

Albert Einstein