The Early Years: 2013 - 2020
While still working as an engineer I began traveling around to emulate the great landscape photographers I had seen. This preoccupied most of my photographic interest early on…
2013 - 2017
Even then there was a fondness for simplicity, form, abstraction, and black and white. Whenever a picture spoke in black and white something deep inside a smiled.
Then, overnight it seemed my interest and learning turned to differing cultures and ways of life.
Cuba, 2017
Asia, 2017
A graduate degree and several entrepreneurial mistakes drug me away from photography.
It was a move to Colorado and an encounter with an eccentric yet beautiful abstract expressionist painter that reintroduced me to my love of photography and an introduction to the “arts” propper. I fell in love with Rothko, Pollock, Frans Kline - the painters and blazing passion were my teachers now.
Working as her assistant and jack of all trades photographer I began learning again…I felt alive and in love, again.
The Artist, 2021
Leading me to the Texas Border in 2021 in what became:
Migrations: The Texas Border, 2021