For me the best art is an invitation to some other world. That’s what I aim for in my work, anyway. I’ve been producing art in different mediums all my life, but have inched towards focusing on quieter forms in more recent years, always with a blind affinity to traditional media (ink, graphite, film). I hope my work inspires something curious in anyone who’s looking.

For as long as I can remember photography has been a passion of mine. As a kid I would go everywhere taking Polaroids. In my teen years I got my first 35mm film SLR and started doing concept shoots based on whatever I’d see in magazines. Later in life I started my own photography business shooting weddings and portraits. And my favorite part was always when I got to shoot film. It was more magical for me and the people I worked with - there’s something more ephemeral and exciting about it. Particularly in a world where we think of the rapid of an instant infinity options. A roll of medium format film means sixteen images. And as someone who has shot tens of thousands of digital images, I can tell you that most often that those sixteen images would all be better than the infinity of digital ones I could capture.

That is to say there’s something about the tactile process of shooting analog film that has become an obsession for me. There’s something more ephemeral about the results and the way the image is rendered, yes. But even more so the process itself is infinitely more exciting. I have no way of explaining it, but I feel more connected to the beauty of the shots I take with film and I see the world and the light that illuminates it differently when I’m shooting a roll of film.

These days I almost exclusively focus on landscapes, structures, details of places that linger like a ghost. At the moment I’m building out my portfolio of images of American places, with the sincere hope to develop prints in a darkroom by year’s end. Thank you for visiting and following my work.