My Process Is My Practice
Process is your unique fingerprint as an artist. For me, the process of making an image is as much of my practice as the actual photographs. From the written passages and countless darkroom notebooks, to the ephemera and tickets I collect along my travels, all of that is just as important to me as the final image.
Driver's log · FL 2026
Strangers become friends
My approach to photographing is one of openness, curiosity and an endless desire to learn. The joy of photography for me is that the camera becomes a passport—it allows me to meet people whose paths I likely wouldn't have crossed, and to hear stories I wouldn't be able to find anywhere else.
A stranger is one conversation away from becoming a friend. When I truly get to know someone that I want to photograph, the photograph becomes a conversation instead of a lecture.
I find that when I establish the trust and relationship before, the photographs are much more rich and have something to say. My goal is that every photograph I make of somebody can become a small window into their life, and my camera and approach can help share a story that maybe wouldn't have been heard.
Contact Sheets
Contact sheet
Contact Sheets
A contact sheet is a contact print of every negative on a roll. I mark the ones I want to print with a grease pencil, along with other small notes.
Color Test Strips
The process of making a darkroom print is one that takes time. It's not just getting the exposure and color right, but it's comparing variations of color, dodging and burning for different times and testing and testing until you stumble across the final print. The test strips and scraps, although badly color balanced or cropped oddly, really show the process of how a color print gets made.
All the scraps laid out
My approach to photographing is one of openness, curiosity and an endless desire to learn.
My Darkroom Notebooks
These notebooks are how I learn from my mistakes and create a catalog of information I can reference in the future. Besides the informational entries inside these notebooks, I also collage test strips and misprints, and the notebooks become their own art objects.
Notebook V1 — 2022–2024
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Notebook V2 — 2025–current
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