Usually being the behind the camera means I don’t have a lot of photos of me. Here is a selfie I took while I was hiking the Lion’s Head in Cape Town, South Africa, June 2025
About me and my photography journey
My life long love of photography started when I was barely 10. I learned a lot watching my Mom in her darkroom at our home in New England. She is an artist at heart and has shifted mediums over the years (photography, paint, mixed-media, textile arts, etc) but her influence on me is ever present in what I do.
During college at the University of Rochester (Rochester, NY) I was surrounded by photography as Rochester is home to Kodak and joking referred to as the world’s largest darkroom due to the weather. While my degree work was not in photography (it was chemical engineering), all my free electives were related to photography, film, and even live performance production.
In 2015, my family moved to Eau Claire, WI and I set photography aside for awhile but have since rekindled my interest through a focus on sports photography, specifically swim and dive.
Street photography at night in Istanbul, June 2024
My photojournalistic approach to everything
In a world of generative AI, Instagram filters, and photoshopped “perfection”, I seek to capture the world as it happens using a photojournalistic approach. This means that most of my work is not staged or involve posing people, though I will do that for dedicated portrait work.
My primary focus is the moments in life that are full of emotion, drama, tension, and action. My images are meant to have the viewer think about what may be happening in that fraction of a second and what may have come next. I seek to tell a story through a single image.
The majority of my work is self-initiated but I will take commissioned work as well. Currently, my primary photography interests are sports (any kind), events, portraits (limited to certain genres), street photography, and people focused commercial photography.
My photography interests were rekindled when there was a need for better photos of my sons’ swim team. This photo I took of my oldest son, who currently competes in D3 college swimming, during a meet in October 2024
My interest in sports, particularly the non-ball sports
My interest and passion for sports photography was born out of a frustration at the lack of high quality photos for swimming in my area. I knew it was possible to take amazing photos (as demonstrated by Olympic photographers) so I decided to fill the need.
While I would love to shoot a professional or Olympic level event, I find more joy and satisfaction focusing on youth sports. I believe that all young athletes deserve to have sports magazine quality photos of them doing the sport they love. I seek to provide them with photos that they can look at and feel a sense of pride and accomplishment.
I started with swim and dive because it is, quite literally, our family sport. I swam for 12 years competetively, my wife and brother both swam in college, my sons and two of my nieces swim today, and I have coached the sport. I know the sport well which is critical to knowing what moments to capture.
I actively seek opportunities to capture other sports that tend to receive less photo coverage as well such as gymnastics, track, cross-country. etc.