My path to photography was not a straight line. For over a decade I co-owned and ran a marketing agency, immersing myself in marketing strategy, visual identity, and art direction. I spent years helping clients translate concepts into commercial success. I was good at it. But I eventually realized that while I was building brands, I was missing something: the deeper, more intimate human connection that only a lens can find.
Everything changed in 2021. My wife faced a life-threatening medical crisis. As she began the long road to recovery, the camera became my way of navigating that journey with her. I wasn't just documenting her recovery. I was documenting resilience, strength, and the quiet beauty of transformation. And I was happily surprised to learn how profoundly healing and transformative seeing that recovery through photographs was for her.
That experience redefined everything. I started to understand how transformational art can be, not just as a record of what happened, but as a way of reflecting the truth of who we are.
What I came to understand through that experience, and through my own continuing spiritual journey, is that the world has drifted dangerously far from reverence for the feminine. Not just in photography, in everything.
Photography is an honest medium if you let it be. To pull any single moment out of the flow of time and commit it to an image automatically objectifies that moment. It turns whatever is in the frame into an object, whether we intend that or not. There is no escaping it. The only question is what kind of objectification you are willing to make. Most of the visual world answers that question badly, reducing the person in the frame to a surface, a taking dressed up as appreciation. I think of what I do as reverential objectification: the fullest possible honoring of the subject rather than a diminishment of her. Not erasing her presence. Committing it permanently to light.
The work I make is a small act of correction in that direction.
Today I work across fine art nude, lingerie, swimwear, and personal branding photography, approaching every project with the same question: does this show the truth? My background running a marketing agency means I understand what a brand needs from an image. But the work that drives everything is the fine art: the image that asks nothing of the subject except that she be exactly who she is.
I shoot primarily on 35mm and medium format film, using a scanning process I developed myself. Most film photographers are using technology from the 1990s. Mine produces files large enough for gallery-scale prints with complete color control, while keeping everything that makes film what it is: the grain, the latitude, the slightly dreamy quality that no digital filter reproduces. For clients who need the speed and flexibility of digital, I have also developed ways to achieve an almost indistinguishable film aesthetic without the wait.
I am based in the American South and available to travel for the right project.
The work starts with a conversation.
Fine art personal sessions, select commercial work, and branding photography. Based in the American South, available to travel for the right project.