I was born in 1958 in Cambridge, Massachusettes. I grew up in Arlington, twenty miles northwest of Boston. I had three brothers and a sister. My father was a chemical engineer and loved photography. He gave me my first camera for a high school graduation present. That summer my boyfriend taught me f-stops and shutter speeds at lunch one day in a cafe in Harvard Square. I was hooked. We took a night class at a local highschool but that wasn't enough. I wanted to learn more. I studied at The New England School of Photography in Kenmore Square in Boston.