Visual Communication:

For over twenty-five years, I have managed the work and careers of top-level photographers and artists in areas as diverse as art, fashion, photojournalism and commercial photography. As creative director, CEO and ambassador for the medium of photography, I have written successful business plans and reshaped operations for American, Asian and European imaging companies.

As Creative Director of eyestorm.com, I worked with artists such as Damien Hirst, Ed Ruscha, Richard Misrach, with a mission to introduce high-end art to commercial and private clients. As Director of the Image Archive with Art + Commerce, I represented the archives of Robert Mapplethorpe, Steven Meisel, David LaChapelle and others and expanded the company’s distribution of contemporary American photography by repurposing the archives.

I was part of the founding management team of Getty Images and my work as SVP and Group Creative Director included co-writing the IPO prospectus which helped to launch the company as the world’s commercially most successful image supplier. I have deep experience in world-shaping photojournalism as Director of Network Photographers in London and, most recently, as CEO of VII in New York, both high-profile co-operatives of leading photojournalists. From 2004 to 2012 I took an annual assignment as Secretary to the World Press Photo competition in Amsterdam.

Often described as a “futurist” I have broadcast, taught and written extensively about the ethics and practice of photography.

I currently live in New York.