Born and bred in Oregon, I discovered photography as a high schooler in Keizer, where the only outlets for channeling creative energy were either art or troublemaking.

Thankfully, I (mostly) chose the former of the two and honed my artistic chops with a Pentax K1000. I moved to Los Angeles in 2001 and attended Biola University, earning my BFA in photography in 2005. I now reside in Long Beach, CA, which is unequivocally the best city in America. (True).

Wim Wenders refers to photography as “An act in two directions.” As the shutter releases, an image is created that contains not only the subject, but also a vague shadow of the photographer. The resulting image communicates not only how it was, but also how it seemed. My photography is caught in flux between the truth of the moment and the statement a final image makes. My work depends thusly on you, viewer, to see, to interpret, to respond.