About

Based in Maryland, I am a photographer and educator with a BFA and MAT from the Maryland Institute College of Art. Time spent living and working in both Costa Rica and China has contributed to an ongoing curiosity about place, perception, and the ways we interpret the world around us.

My subject matter is intentionally eclectic, driven by a kind of nervous curiosity that continually pulls me toward different subjects and photographic approaches. In some work, the camera becomes a way of isolating and situating a subject so that it can be encountered outside of its familiar context and opened to a different interpretation. Elsewhere, I am interested in the camera itself as a technology of vision—an instrument capable of revealing aspects of time, light, movement, scale, and space in ways unavailable through ordinary human perception.

My practice moves across digital photography, traditional silver-gelatin film and darkroom processes, and historic photographic methods including platinum-palladium and oil printing. Beyond the photographic image itself, process and material are important to me because different methods of making and printing a photograph can fundamentally alter how that image is experienced.

Teaching has also become closely connected to my photographic practice. Having taught fine art and photography in both school and adult-education settings, I continue to find that teaching deepens my engagement with the history, craft, materiality, and evolving possibilities of the medium.