I first became familiar with Greg's work when I was a student at Brooks Institute of Photography. Greg was a guest speaker and his work was always inspirational and thoughtful. He was always pushing the limits when it came to technique. I remember him saying, "Take the biggest chance when you have the biggest opportunity." A few of Greg's words, "I made this portrait of my mentor, Arnold Newman, in 1982, seventeen years after I moved to New York to work as his assistant…I was scared shitless…he still intimidated the hell out me. This 4x5 Polaroid was literally the very first frame I exposed, after which I shot another dozen or more frames on "real" film. But. as is often he case, this first frame was the only one the captured his irascible, intense, curmudgeonly visage - the one that haunts me in my nightmares to this day…"
