I’ve always been drawn to photos. Before photography became my passion, I would see a great photo and study what it was that made it so captivating. I also have an affinity for technology and how things work, so cameras intrigued me. I wanted to get my hands on them and understand how they could produce these magical images. I loved the idea that putting these two things together could create art. It was a form I could wrap both my mechanical and creative mind around. So, I bought myself a camera before a trip to Italy and came home with thousands of photos! I was hooked. I started shooting everything I could—architecture, nature, streetscapes, landscapes, and people. Flash forward to present day and here I am, building a cache of work and still aiming to capture what’s extraordinary in everything I shoot. It’s always there, it just takes the right eye to find it.
I’ve always stopped at great photographs. Not just glanced — stopped. Studied them. Tried to understand what they were doing to me and why. For years, I told myself that one day I’d learn to make images like that.
That day came in 2019, when my wife and I planned a trip to Italy. I bought a camera five months before we left and taught myself how to use it — the mechanics came naturally. What didn’t come as easily was the eye. Knowing how a camera works and knowing how to see are two very different things, and I understood that gap from the beginning.
Italy was a start. I came home with crisp, clear images and enough hunger to keep going. Some of those photographs are in this gallery.
The real turn came about four years ago, when I walked into a local gallery and spent time in front of printed work for the first time since I began the journey. There’s something a print does that a screen never will — it holds still, it rewards patience, it reveals itself slowly. I stood there longer than I expected to and left knowing that this was what I wanted to make. Not images to scroll past. Images to live with.
I took the advice of a well-known photographer, acquired a large-format printer, and started developing my own work. Everything in this gallery — culled from years of shooting and refined through that lens — was made with a single intention: to enhance the environment it lives in.
I’m always available if you’d like to reach out.