About

My personal work comes out of a photographic tradition grounded in observation — working with the world as it is, without staging or directing it. I’m drawn to photographers like Atget and Evans, who trusted that clear, unsentimental looking could reveal more than invention.

I’m interested in how a photograph can describe not an idealized version of a subject, but the thing as it is encountered: altered by light, vantage point, framing, proximity, and chance. Some photographers are primarily concerned with documentation, while others use the world as material for self-expression. My own work lives in the tradition that holds those impulses together — faithful to what was there, but shaped by attention, judgment, and feeling.

What I’m often looking for are the places where the world resists our expectations: the odd conjunctions, visual interruptions, accidental structures, and strange harmonies that appear inside ordinary life.

I have taught photography at the Academy of Art University since 2008, and have served as a visiting instructor at the Smithsonian Associates and Maine Media Workshops.

Alongside this personal work, I photograph editorial and commercial assignments, especially environmental portraits of people in the places where they work and live.

The work on this site comes out of those years of teaching, looking, making, and raising a family — a long formation in what I value, what I distrust, and what I expect from a photograph