about…

I’m a Minneapolis-based photographer, writer, educator, editor, and sound-maker, originally from Chicago. This site started mostly as a home for my photography, but it is slowly becoming a place for the rest of my creative life too: writing, music, experiments, fragments, and projects that don’t fit neatly into one category.

A lot of my work begins with noticing. I’m interested in places, textures, old buildings, strange light, quiet details, music scenes, memory, and the things people make when they are trying to understand where they are. Photography has been my main creative practice for years, but writing and sound have always been part of the same larger impulse: paying attention, collecting evidence, and making something from it.

My photo work includes landscapes, architecture, nature, music, events, and portraits. It has been featured in Apartment Therapy, Rift Magazine, Powderhorn365, and in galleries and shows. One of my photographs, birdhouses, received an honorable mention in the Black and White Spider Awards.

Professionally, I’ve worked across education, editing, research, media production, design, publishing, web development, marketing, healthcare, nonprofits, and higher education. That winding path has made me comfortable wearing a lot of hats, although I do occasionally wish they were a little better organized… :)

For creative projects, I use film and digital cameras, analog synthesizers, microphones, Logic Pro, and an assortment of other tools depending on the project. I like clean design, interesting sounds, good sentences, black-and-white images, old textures, and technology that behaves itself.

I’m also a vegetarian, an LGBTQ person, a dog lover, and partner to an awesome artist. I aspire to one day defeat my sugar addiction, but for now I continue to believe that chocolate chip cookies are a reasonable coping strategy.