About

I am a portrait photographer, a lover, a brother, an uncle and a friend.

My love for photography started when I was very young. My first camera was a Kodak 110 Instamatic, perfect for small hands, even though I don’t think I ever had small hands. I took pictures of everything, from family to dogs & cats to trees, whatever was around. Since my funds were limited, I quickly learned the value of film. This constraint was a great teacher as I learned to reflect before taking each shot. I learned to pay attention to every detail in the frame as I was setting up the shot. At times, it would take weeks to shoot a 20-exposure film cartridge as I learned that I had to make each picture count.

I finished high school and college at the North Carolina School of the Arts, majoring in dance and design & production, and I studied photography through the New York Institute of Photography. During this time, I carried my Canon AE-1 everywhere. I photographed classes and performances, head shots and resume shots, theatre and dance, intriguing people and community events. My focus gravitated to dance and fashion as I was inspired by the way the body moves and the corresponding textures.

After a decade of pursuing this passion, photography took a back seat to other career endeavors, including dance performances and lighting design. These aspirations have clearly influenced my view of light, the human form, and storytelling. As photography became more prominent in my life again, I worked with digital for its ease of use and immediacy. This technology gave me the opportunity to explore depth of field, soft and hard focus, and different lighting qualities. Yet eventually, I found this medium falling short of my expectations. So after several years of digital, I traded my Canon T2i for a Nikon film camera.