Nothing is Different,
but Everything is Changed.
Given the right context, the most ordinary moment can take your breath away. Whether or not the world is filled with infinite potential, unlimited beauty, delightful nuance, is entirely up to us.
We choose the context, the framework, from which to view life, and thus we create meaning.
One of the first things I noticed when I shifted from filmmaking to still photography is that so often the shots that are beautiful or evocative on film simply do not work as still images.
My work has been devoted to exploring just what constitutes a moment. How much time life can I pack into an instant? How much context can be revealed in a single image? What is known yet left unseen?
In his book The Art Spirit, Robert Henri writes “Limitation inspires creativity.” I have lived by this quote since graduate school, and for that reason strive to achieve as much as possible in-camera in all of my work.
I am from Los Angeles, where my work as a filmmaker served as the foundation of my photography. The sprawling city, with its adjacent beaches, mountains and desert served as my photography lab. One of my favorite meditative past-times was to ride my bicycle on Fountain or Hope with a Canon ae-1 slung over my shoulder.
I left Los Angeles for love. I met my wife at a meditation retreat in 2021, and subsequently moved to Williamsburg, Virginia, where we began our relationship. We now live in the Appalachias, surrounded by the ever-inspiring mountain landscape and the life it holds.