I spent my younger years in the suburban outskirts of Grand Rapids, Michigan before venturing 1000 miles from the mid-west to pursue a BFA in photography at Florida State University. The random workings of life sent me across the Atlantic to spend five years wandering the streets of Belgium and its European neighbors. A fascination with place and culture, fostered mostly by my time in Brussels, led to a masters degree in anthropology at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.

I returned to the states in 2005 to travel my homeland, including many cross-country road trips and stints in the central Michigan farmlands, the urban vibrations of Oakland, CA and the rainy, quirky Portland, OR. In late 2011 I began an MFA course at Sint-Lukas Brussels University College of Art and Design in Brussels.

I've recently been developing a series of hand-crafted artist books in collaboration with Ampersand Gallery in Portland, Oregon. I also work with Portland's Street Roots newspaper, curate an annual photography exhibit in the struggling steel mill town of Braddock, PA and have been published in the Virginia Quarterly Review and the Portland Mercury, among others.

I shoot mostly with vintage gear, especially 60s era rangefinders, old Polaroids and a Crown Graphic 4x5.