Sometimes I feel like  a time traveler visiting the past and returning with a piece of  endangered history. At other times I feel like I’ve joined a passionate  community with whom I share values and interests.

I’ve been trying to  bring some of the past back into the present through photography for  over forty years, ever since rowing out to then-abandoned Ellis Island  in 1974 when I was a senior in high school to make a 16mm film.  Exploring New York’s ruins was the closest thing to the frontier, and at  the time New York had a lot of them.

More recently, I’ve been  creating large immersive public art installations that bring together  photography, archival research and activism. Many are large walk-in  panoramic photographs, or cycloramas, of places of cultural  significance, while others are large-scale, highly-detailed photo murals  that are up to 100 feet long and 10 feet tall.