About Me

I began taking photos in 2010, on the eve of a summer road trip across the United States. My friend Jonah had just taken the reins of a traveling hat business, and I decided to come along as first mate. That summer would mark the beginning of a multi-year odyssey that would lead us to music festivals and street fairs across the U.S., with frequent stop-overs to explore hidden parts of the country.

Music festival attendees became my first photography subjects. There are few places in the world where you can see thousands of people in a raw, playful state, fully stripped of their inhibitions. I watched people that wouldn’t be caught dead without a brown belt and black shoes in their regular lives skipping around barefoot, unabashedly showing off a Dave Matthews Band tattoo from their teenage years. I grew to love taking photos of all the of the characters that I encountered on the road and at these rowdy festivals. I even used it as a sales tactic for the hat business from time to time, showing the seemingly hesitant customer how great they looked in a cowboy hat through the lens.

Unknowingly at the time, my documentation of the people and places that I encountered that summer was my first attempt at the natural, candid, photojournalistic style that I continue to practice 10 years later. Unfortunately, I left that first camera top of the car somewhere in New York, and all of those photos are lost to time. But I got a better one the next year, and kept at it. 

Photographing families came next. Once my siblings started to have children, I took every chance I could get to document their lives. Children don’t need to go to a music festival to be wild and uninhibited. Left to their own devices, children are naturally silly & playful, presenting plenty of opportunities for anyone with a camera who is willing to run after them (me). Photographing my nieces and nephews taught me how to achieve focus in my photos. If you can get a two year old in focus with any amount of accuracy, then you are ready to photograph Olympic sprinters.

In the past five years, I’ve photographed weddings, families, artists, houses, and even the birth of my friend’s son. My approach continues to be natural and candid, producing a set of photos that tells a detailed story.