For over two decades I have pursued the photographic medium through the filter of concept, culture, music, environment, history, and graphic art, alongside a desire to encourage inquiry, dialogue, and positive change through my work. Though I took my first meaningful image in 1985 atop Mount Washington, my photographic career started in 1998, inspired by the hope to one day work for the likes of National Geographic and Smithsonian Magazine. Since then, I have developed a visual language that is unique to my way of seeing, interpreting, and engaging the world, through taking on a myriad of self-imposed challenges and stylistic approaches that have included documentary, editorial, fine art, portraiture, advocacy, performance, and live music photography, while capturing historical moments that have been described as “edgy”, “raw”, “provocative”, “compelling”, “moving” and “powerful”, while concurrently producing conceptual imagery that has been characterized as “strangely beautiful”, “surreal”, “haunting”, “sublime”, and even “imbued with a sense of humor”.

During my early years, I made it my mission to explore the extensive cross-section of subcultural communities that defined San Francisco's social underground during the turn of the millennium. This included five years of documenting the cultural phenomenon known as Burning Man from different perspectives. During my middle years, I chronicled the recovery of New Orleans and its inhabitants following the devastation visited upon the region by Hurricane Katrina, followed a few years later by the BP Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico. While, in recent years I have been photographic live music, portraiture, and different approaches to visual presentation.

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