As a shy youth, I gravitated towards quiet activities like drawing and painting as a means of self-expression and fulfillment. In high school, I discovered that photography enabled an even deeper sense of presence, purpose and utility.  

 

Once in college, this budding interest bloomed into a palpable life passion. My ensuing work ranged from high-profile celebrity portraiture for charity auctions to private art commissions and personal nature studies. After graduation, I was briefly hospitalized with an acute onset of blindness. The abrupt loss of vision left me with an immense yearning to heal and get back behind the camera. If I recovered, I vowed not to let a single day pass without creating. Miraculously, I made a slow, yet full recovery and continue to honor my personal vow to this day.

 

From a creative and technical standpoint, all photographs are fully analog. My process utilizes silver-based film, light-sensitive paper and chemistry in a traditional darkroom to produce black and white archival prints. The negatives (35mm — 20”x24”) are manually developed in my studio and enlarged/contacted onto gelatin silver fiber paper in small editions. I have chosen to work with film due to the tremendous resolution and tonal quality advantages. The slower pace imbues a sense of intention within each picture.

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