For most of my career, I was a writer. I spent months — sometimes years — on a single story. Then it would publish, disappear behind a paywall, and most people would never read it.

The whole time, I was taking pictures. Not because I was a photographer. Because I was a reporter, and photographs are how I remember. I'd look back at my camera roll from a story I filed a year earlier and see the corner of a room, a face, a particular quality of light — and everything would come back. What people said. How they moved. What the air felt like.

At some point I started looking at the pictures themselves. Some of them were good. Some of them captured something true about a moment, a place, a person.

I don't work in a studio. I don't have a lot of gear. My preference is to find people in their lives and shoot them there — outdoors, in motion, in context. I came up on the idea that if you show up somewhere as a journalist, you don't touch anything. You don't arrange the scene. You capture what's in front of you. That's mostly still how I try to shoot. And I'm also exploring what it means to direct a scene, a model, an idea in an image.

What I'm after is intimacy in still images. Insight. The moment that tells you something you wouldn't have known to look for.

I travel a bit, am open to all sorts of arrangements for gigs. Mostly looking to expand my portfolio, maybe we can work together.

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