I have been a photographer for my entire life. I received my first camera for my fifth birthday and have been making photographs ever since. I was born in southwestern Kansas, where I learned to appreciate rural America and wide-open spaces.

Having parents in the military, I traveled extensively during my youth. Having lived all over America and Africa, I have had many opportunities to photograph people from all walks of life. Traditionally a documentary film photographer, I have created multiple bodies of work exploring the complexity of human experience.

I began my documentary photography career as a seventeen-year-old. Living in San Francisco, I documented the lives of young homeless street musicians in a project entitled “Buskin.” During my travels in Africa, I documented the female experience in Guinea, West Africa, in a project entitled “L’excision.” Additionally, I documented the working people of Conakry in a project entitled “Au Travail.”

I’m currently based in the Colorado Front Range, where I have rediscovered my love for rural life. I have built a homestead on top of a ridge that I share with my young daughter and our cats and dogs. During my ten years of ridge living, I have grown to greatly appreciate American history. As a result, I have shifted my focus to preserving the history of today through the lens of yesterday by making tintype photographs.

It would be my honor to preserve your likeness in a manner that will withstand the test of time.