I am a man in the pursuit of Truth.  I know that sounds idealistic.  Or maybe even pretentious, but I don't mean it that way.  I mean it simply and to the point.  I want the Real.  The Sweet.  The Full.  I want to learn about balance and love and forgiveness, right now, and for the rest of my life.  To this end I am relentless.  I have experienced the consequences of passivity and the control of fear, so instead, I choose Life in all its messiness, in all its beauty, and in all its shortcomings.




How does this relate to my work, you ask?  In every way possible, I say.  It is the core of why I bother to create at all.  Partly because I simply can't help it.  To not create would be to cease to be myself, in part.  To not create would be selfish.  I am meant to create.  It is part of how I love and feel and share.




But all that tom foolery aside, here are the concrete details.  I'm 31 and I live in Brooklyn.  I've been here since January of 2013 and I adore New York.  It is so weighty and in constant forward motion, like a train.  I lived in Ventura, CA for a stint, where I went to Brooks Institute of Photography for Visual Journalism and then began shooting what I prefer to call creative portraiture.  Before that, I was your run of the mill, small town, family and wedding photographer in Boise, ID.  God bless it.  I still can't help but go back there every couple of months at least.  It is a gentle and quiet place.




So that's me.  




Shoot Straight.  Stay Salty.

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