I was born in Mobile, Alabama and raised just north of there in a rural community on the edge of the Mobile-Tensaw River Delta. After studying English Literature at the University of Alabama, I spent most of the next decade living in Chicago and New York City. In 2005 I came to Anchorage for a short-term contract job with the Alaska Railroad, and soon thereafter I decided to make Alaska my home.

I’ve had a lifelong love for photography, but it wasn’t until I experienced the striking landscapes of the Last Frontier that I began to study and practice the art seriously, primarily as an attempt to draw on the beauty of Alaska in a creative manner. In 2006 I purchased my first medium-format film camera—a Hasselblad 500 C/M—and that is when my true education began. With that fully manual camera I honed my eye and taught myself the technical intricacies of creating images and working with film, my focus falling primarily on my natural surroundings in Alaska.

Since then I have branched off onto other photographic avenues, and in addition to my trusty Hasselblad, I now work with a variety of medium- and large-format cameras, including several of the pinhole variety. I still focus heavily on landscapes, but a glance at my portfolio will show you that my eye often wanders onto architecture and other subjects.

These days I divide much of my time between the Gulf Coast and Alaska, and you can often find me in other places in between.