Mostly Photography,

I was born on Monday, January the 12th, in Wyandotte, a small suburb of Detroit, and spent my entire childhood in South Eastern Michigan. After secondary school I moved to San Francisco to attend college. There I studied art formally for five years, receiving a Bachelor of Fine Arts with a focus in documentary photography.

After graduation I worked as a freelancer in San Francisco for a short time, shooting for various publications around the Bay Area. Somewhere along the line I became rather fed up with the direction the freelance world was heading at the behest of the digital insurrection. Value is now placed on volume and cost, not quality and depth. A depressing reality, but a reality nonetheless.

I eventually abandoned the freelance game, picked up the film cameras again and returned to the darkroom with a more artistic approach, focusing solely on my own personal work. Since then I have realized that I was never really interested in pictures. Pictures are perishable things, one-off transactions, most of which end up at the bottom of a shoe box.

I am however, interested in photographs, the process by which they are created, the stories behind them, and the manner in which they become objects of obsession that hang on the wall. The sum of the parts that make up a finished photograph are far more interesting to me than any picture.

Today I continue to live in San Francisco, working on personal photographic projects, as well as several web projects with other photographers and designers.