Driven by an insatiable curiosity and an admiration for the form, I often view it as my role to map out the intricate tapestries of the human experience. And by working primarily in the vein of photography, I am especially drawn to what I consider to be the eminence of a hidden, visual language: subcultures, music, styles of dress, architecture, subject interactions. Things that can be quantified and tell us more about a specific society of the people who inhabit them, or don’t, and exhibit a strong sense of place. 

I feel that photography is extra potent to me in this manner, as with it being one of the most accessible of the arts, it shares a direct heritage to the representation of under-archived communities and holds within in a sort of alchemical mysticism like quality which is ever -present within the aura of every photograph. Very closely to this, I also find myself drawn to and working in short-films or edits: sometimes musical overtures, which share a strong cultural connotation to the many visual styles and facets from which I draw my influences. Urbanization, city sprawl, human form, subliminal messaging, ideology and grit through the usage of sometimes editorial-styles are recurring themes in my work, and I am mostly inspired by the contemporary movements in visual culture with artists such as Juan Brenner, Christopher Phan, Robert Mapplethorpe, Basquiat and Andre Wagner being at the forefront of it, with their postmodern approaches to being culturally-avowed, strong stringents having an ability to capture the kind of special-relationship between people and the places they inhabit; blended with a deep-seated admiration for the historic undertonings of the craft through looking towards a variety of modern masters and purveyors of photographic technology such as F. Holland Day, Gordon Parks and Edward Weston, artists with an obsessive attention to quality and desire for experimentation in both the making of physical-work longevity and creating an enduring mental image of their work. I work mostly in portraiture and architectural digital and film photography, and find that, contemporarily, making these forms of work will bring me much closer to my goal of capturing the uniquely post-modern essences of my experience, personhood and space.