experience

My experience with photography and visual design comes from university, personal work and hands-on projects.

I studied visual communication and psychology at The University of Texas at Arlington. While in school I worked as a freelance lighting specialist and photo editor, mostly for a small portrait company in Dallas. After graduating I moved to China to teach and study.

Being in China inspired me in a variety of ways and I began working on the series neverending to try and synthesize how I felt about the gargantuan scale of life and movement that was so new to me. In addition to teaching, I worked for a local expatriate magazine, generating story content as well as shooting events and photo essays.

After China, I moved back to the U.S. before going to Asia again and working on a project about the differences in processing visual stimulation in urban and rural environments in Thailand. While traveling through Thailand and Malaysia I also began working on a long-term project documenting the couchsurfing experience. The past two years I have taken this project through The Netherlands, Germany, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Vietnam, staying with and making new friends in the process.

Currently I’m back in Texas, putting together some new projects (enjoy the south, puzzling existence) and working on organizing my next expedition. I recently installed an educational/artistic display about some of my favorite insects, dragonflies. It is called the Odonata (dragonflies) of Tarrant County and highlights the local dragonfly biodiversity of the area I’ve called home on-and-off for the past decade.