I grew up in a prairie town in the dust of Southern Saskatchewan, Canada. A creative queer with a penchant for the absurd, I had trouble fitting in. Road trips, family vacations, and a brief residence in the Gulf Coast of Florida with my mom and little brother as a teenager inspired me to make snapshots and experiment with film.
In college I studied Photojournalism, Fine Art Photography and Film. I travelled, and made photographs every day of my life. Then I moved to New York with a tentative 5-year plan. That was 18 years ago.
I’ve worked in celebrity photography – mostly PR for fashion, film and tv – for the past thirteen years. I love photographing live events and being present to bottle the energy of living: parties & portraits, press events & award ceremonies, rehearsals & performances – the moment is my muse. In my off-hours, I run a studio specializing in flowers. I also explore the world through film and alternate printing and capturing processes.
My artistic practice is documentary in style, with the intention of embodying the spirit of both my rural roots and chosen home, New York City, illustrating their parallels and paradoxes, and the deep relationship they share with me as an artist. My work explores themes of family, belonging, and rural and urban isolation. With a varying combination of film and digital cameras, I explore abandoned dwellings, urban decay, living collections of trash, and the homes of the recently deceased.
What I make is a reflection on the concept of home, although there is an opposing sense of alienation and a feeling of being somewhere in between here & there. This paradox was highlighted during the Covid-19 Pandemic, when I captured abandoned dwellings and storefronts, the vast emptiness of the prairie landscape, the mutations of a barren city, and my young son navigating a world spent “On Pause”, both in NYC and my rural hometown.
Credits include Variety, Rolling Stone, US Weekly, The NY Post, WWD, InStyle, Vogue, The New York Times and The Hollywood Reporter.