Welcome to my collection of holiday cards past. I'm back after an 18 year hiatus.

 

If you've known me for longer than 18 years, then this will be like a walk down memory lane. If you've known me for less than 18 years, know that this was a beloved artistic expression I endeavored on year after year and is an important part of who I am that somehow got lost in the shuffle of life.

 

Times have  certainly changed in these past 18 years. Unbeknownst to me, in retrospect, the cards captured a New York that in many cases no longer exists. So it's also a walk down memory lane of how life in New York used to be.

 

I had three rules when conceiving of each card - it had to be a New York City scene, I was always in it stepping into a role in the scene, and there had to be writing intrinsic to the scene that I would then change to say Happy Holidays.

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I did not specifically set out to be topical with these cards - I just set out to capture a real New York City scene and insert myself into it. As I'm putting this website together now, I see how the news and topics and Zeitgeist of the time influenced my choices and how with the lens of 20-30 years to look back with now, it's interesting to see how much that Zeitgeist has changed. 

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A big shout out to my friend, my co-conspirator, and the star photographer Geoffrey Croft who photographed these cards year after year and who was onboard yet-again this year for my holiday card resurrection.  Click on the about page to read more about our decades-long collaboration. 

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Click on this year's image or the red button and it will bring you to the portfolio of all the years past along with details about the making of each one.