B I O/ S T A T E M E N T
I became interested in photography in high school in Fort Wayne, Indiana; my senior portfolio took first place at the JEA/NSPA National Journalism Convention. I graduated from Northwestern University with a B.A. in economics, studied street photography at the Art Institute of Chicago, and earned a M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the University of California, Irvine. Since 2009, my work has been represented in Los Angeles by the Cohen Gallery, featured in L'Oeil de la Photographie, exhibited at various galleries and exhibitions, including photo la, and found its way into numerous private collections.
From my street photography origins, I've explored dystopian landscapes and chronicled found words, messages, and symbolic structures created by frequently anonymous people, in parallel with the rise of social media. I’m intrigued by the consequences of our interconnectedness, including the ways in which, paradoxically, the means of our digital connections disconnect us from one another.
The title of my text series takes its inspiration from Twitter. With those images, I’m interested in deconstructing the tweet (and all brief forms of digital communication) in photographs of single words and phrases. By counteracting the limitations of linguistic minimalism with a fresh, more nuanced, visual statement, my goal is to open dialogue through humor and the aesthetic possibilities inherent in photography.
Update: Covid-19, with its lockdowns and isolation, has caused me to visualize a number of images, many of which I haven't taken, several of which I've used digital means to render. They're experiments. They push me, they make me smile.
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From my street photography origins, I've explored dystopian landscapes and chronicled found words, messages, and symbolic structures created by frequently anonymous people, in parallel with the rise of social media. I’m intrigued by the consequences of our interconnectedness, including the ways in which, paradoxically, the means of our digital connections disconnect us from one another.
The title of my text series takes its inspiration from Twitter. With those images, I’m interested in deconstructing the tweet (and all brief forms of digital communication) in photographs of single words and phrases. By counteracting the limitations of linguistic minimalism with a fresh, more nuanced, visual statement, my goal is to open dialogue through humor and the aesthetic possibilities inherent in photography.
Update: Covid-19, with its lockdowns and isolation, has caused me to visualize a number of images, many of which I haven't taken, several of which I've used digital means to render. They're experiments. They push me, they make me smile.
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