My work is inspired by documentary processes, literature, light, architecture and the goemetry of space. I have exhibited internationally and nationally with work exploring a diverse array of subjects.

Photography became an integral part of my life after learning how to make Van Dyke prints from a pinhole camera for a 7th grade science project. My formal studies include photojournalism and sociology at San Francisco State University; Spanish in Guatemala and Chile; and documentary photography at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. Between 2006-2009 I worked for Chicago’s renowned architectural photography studio, Hedrich Blessing, as an apprentice, web designer and commercial photographer. I continue to work with clients on architectural photography projects on a freelance basis.

Throughout my developing career I have engaged with independent artists, thinkers, designers and community builders. In 1998 I spent seven months photographing in Chile, with a focus on female-headed households. In 2000 I collaborated with Rebecca Solnit and Susan Schwartzenberg on their book, Hollow City:The Siege of San Francisco and the Crisis of American Urbanism. In 2003 I recieved a Lewis Hine Documentary Initiative Fellowship and spent one year in Bloemfontein, South Africa working on documentary projects with a local NGO whose work centers on early childhood education in rural and informal settlements. Currently I’m collaborating with writer and W. Eugene Smith biographer, Sam Stephenson on Chaos Manor, a theatrical production of The Jazz Loft Project and participating in Bull City Summer: A Season at the Ballpark and Beyond. On occasion I create unique imagery for the fiction section of The New Yorker.

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