I am a Los Angeles based Filmmaker and Photographer. My photographs are collected perspectives of adventure, curiosity and wonderment around this crazy life. I’m pretty much just a kid at the circus, with a camera.

While I work primarily as a Cinematographer, still photography has always held a place dear to my heart. Early in my career, I never pushed to work as a photographer. Anyone who has managed to sustain a creative career understands the tricky balance between art and commerce. Still photography was the one thing I always kept for myself.

Even in my brokest or toughest times, I always had some sort of camera on me.  Even in periods when I was doing other odd jobs and couldn’t get work, i would go on walkabout photo missions, or wander festivals. It was, in many ways, therapy. I was just doing it for me.  It helped me understand how I see the world.  What I’m interested in. It helped me hone my sense of design, and tap into my fascination with and fondness for the human condition.

I never concerned myself where these thousands of pictures would go. I always just felt like i would do something with this massive breath of imagery someday.   It wasn’t until Covid and the lockdown that I had the time to get back into printing, and the conditions were created to breathe new life to these images. 

The darkroom was one of my favorite places in college.  I got a work study job there.  I would close down the lab and spend the rest of the night alone, printing.  I loved the tactile element.  You’re up and about, moving your body, engaging with the materials, as opposed to sitting at a keyboard.  I would experiment with photograms, or placing leaves in the negative carrier, on seven minute exposure onto the paper and end up with what felt like a living, breathing leaf on the paper. I liked how the darkroom itself could be used as an instrument.

Once out, I dabbled here and there with crappy printers and paper over the years.  I never really sank my teeth in. During that initial covid quarantine I did my best to recreate this environment for the digital space.  I build a light table setup and captured old negatives that had never been digitized on a digital camera with a macro lens.  I experimented with liquids, copper and other materials, practical compositing and just getting right back to that energy of being in a dark room. 

I dug deep into research on papers, how to really get archival quality with digital prints, photo editing, resizing and a hundred other curiosities.  I realized that my old canon printer was actually an excellent printer for archival printing up to 13”x19”, I had just never really understood the world of archival inkjet papers.  

I fell back in love with the printing process.  As importantly, prepping to print.  I’ve had several moments in my career that have required patience for the tech to catch up in an affordable way.  Now, capturing new imagery, and finally taking all these images, these moments, these benchmarks in my wonderment and exploration, and turning them into a piece of art that exists in the real world.  

Each print on the site is hand made by me.

Immense care has been taken in matching the appropriate paper with each print.

I hope you enjoy the work and look forward to hearing from you soon.