I began taking photographs at a young age and have been active all my life. I have not, till now, sought to sell or exhibit my work. It has always been a very personal expression from me to those I wished to communicate with. For some time I have been adopting many of the technologies and practices used in cultural heritage preservation into my own personal work. The results from these approaches and that I am now self-employed compel me to get involved with the wider photographic community through exhibiting and teaching. I had planned to teaching and interacting with students I always thought I would teach photography but my attraction to technology and the opportunity to work with one of the great encyclopedic art collections took me in another direction. Now I would like to share my imaging experience, one that moves between fine art and technology.I received a Higher National Diploma from Napier University in Edinburgh Scotland in 1977 and an MA from the Ohio State University in 1981. I taught photography at the University of Akron and the Ohio State University before moving to Chicago in 1983. In 1987 then began working at the Art Institute of Chicago.I worked for 32 years at the Art Institute of Chicago as Director of Photography. I designed and managed the studios through the transformation from film to digital beginning in 1990. During this period I collaborated with other major museums to establish ImageMuse, a network to foster the development of best practices in cultural heritage imaging. While at the museum I participated  in two major studies at the Rochester Institute of Technology’s Munsell Color Science Lab investigating the science of color reproduction and served on the Technical Committee for IS&T Archiving Conference. I have designed and implemented large digitization projects of film archives and collections worked closely with conservators using computational and multi-spectral imaging for the study and documentation of works of art including photogrammetry and Reflectance Transformation Imaging  (RTI).