Every story has many sides. None are totally true.
My photography demonstrates this conviction by using multiple cameras and techniques to explore singular themes through shifting points of view.
Depending on the story I’m telling, I’ll use analog film, digital photography, historical processes or a combination of all three. Adding the element of chance, I’ll frequently subject film to the ravages of tequila, lemon juice, salt, boiling water, sandpaper, acetone and even toilet-bowl cleaner.
Originally trained as a writer, I am influenced by early 20th Century authors who told everyday tales through the eyes of multiple, conflicting narrators. My images harken back photographers of that same era who were masters at creating simple tableaus – filled with contradictory emotions – in a single black-and-white frame. At the same time, my photography references the Pop Art movement that colored every aspect of daily life as I was growing up.
After earning a degree in creative writing from the University of Washington, I wrote newspaper articles for several years. I picked up a camera at the tail end of a decades-long career crafting stories and myths for major corporations. For the past six years, I’ve focused full-time on photography while studying at Photographic Center Northwest in Seattle.
My photography has been featured in Black and White magazine and at PhotoPlace Gallery in Vermont, Midwest Center for Photography in Kansas, Las Laguna Gallery in California, Lightbox Photographic and Studio 138 on the Oregon Coast, and Fogue Studios and Gallery in Seattle.