He has been called by art historian and curator Martha Langford, "among the foremost figures of contemporary Canadian photography.
He has lived in Halifax, Nova Scotia since 1973 and worked as an engineer with the Bedford Institute of Oceanography, where he was supervisor of mechanical and oceanographic systems development before retiring in 2006.
[2] With this approach, and the trust he engenders in his subjects, he has achieved a deeply personal, intimate body of work.
A 1989 exhibit at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design was publicly opposed and posters were removed.
A thirty-year retrospective exhibition was mounted at Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery in 2007 and in 2011 he curated and wrote the catalogue essay for the exhibition, Lisette Model: A Performance in Photography which ran from October 8 through November 20, 2011 at MSVU Art Gallery.