About My Work

I’m a photographer and social studies teacher based in Gainesville, Florida. Originally from Memphis, I began taking photographs in high school and later studied cultural geography and photography at the University of Denver. While there, I created two humanitarian-aid exhibitions: Bosnia: Through the Eyes of Her Future and Nepal: An Age of Hope.

Photography helps me become more attentive to my surroundings and my place within them. Through processing, merging, and arranging images, I try to honor the feeling of being somewhere at a particular moment. Sometimes a single, full-frame photograph is enough; other times, experimentation in Photoshop leads somewhere unexpected. I value that open-endedness—the way each project can remain fresh, challenging, and a little mysterious.

Robert Frank’s The Lines of My Hand has been a lasting inspiration. Seeing his work in Lugano as a teenager helped me understand photography not only as a documentary or technical practice, but as an art form—a way to explore emotions and questions. His personal, honest images, arrangements, and juxtapositions continue to shape how I think about making and presenting photographs.

I’m a member of the Gainesville Photography Club, and I hope to share through this website some of the joy and curiosity photography brings me.