“I came to photography through love, and stayed through grief.”
What I have is trial, error, and an eye shaped by life. My photography began in 2008 in earnest alongside my late wife Marni, whose wedding floral business gave me my first real subjects — arrangements, venues, small weddings, and eventually the wider world as we traveled together. One person took my hand and taught me to see. Everything since has been learning to see without her.
After losing Marni to suicide in 2023, the camera became something different. A lifeline. A reason to walk out the door when it was easier not to. I moved to Midtown Phoenix seeking unfamiliar ground and unexpectedly found, a neighborhood rich in art and community and a quiet gift of not feeling alone. My recent work focuses on long exposure photography — busy city spaces rendered still, people erased by time, light pulled into something that feels like breathing room. Landscapes helped build my foundation, but I have discovered that the inner city, slowed down, can be just as quiet.
Marni will always be my greatest inspiration — not only in photography, but in how I move through life and who I continue to try to become.
If something here reaches you, I am glad. You are not alone.
