I was born in Saarbrücken, Germany, immigrating as a child to Israel. I enrolled in the Urwand Studio in Tel-Aviv to study art and have worked as an illustrator and commercial artist in both Israel, and the U.S. As a member of the Urwand Studio team, I was privileged to be involved in the planning and preparing graphic materials for the 25 Anniversary Exhibition of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. I also designed and executed exhibitions in Tel-Aviv and produced posters, logos, a variety of graphic designs and illustrated books for children. Concurrently with artistic activities I studied mathematics at The Hebrew University, Jerusalem and came to the United States to pursue my graduate education in mathematics at Columbia University. I earned my Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Maryland. I became actively engaged in the art of photography on my arrival in the U.S. During the past 40 years I have taken over 30,000 images of the Western and Eastern Unite