Richard Finkelstein works in many media, photography, drawing, painting, model and installation building. Though his original intent in coming to New York was to become an artist, his interest in social justice took him on an extended detour into the world of public interest law, teaching and criminal justice. The investment in narrative which is part of the art of a trial lawyer continued when he left the law to become a full time artist. It led him through drawing and painting to working with random and found materials, fashioning them into self-contained worlds inhabited by small figures which led to photographing these miniature tableaux. Themes of guilt and innocence, shame and secrets, loneliness and voyeurism appear in these pieces, which are often cinematic in their narrative course. The interest in making and stories continues to evolve into different media and forms of presentation.