PRACTICE

A moment during the inaugural FIRE Community Portrait Session. February 2026. PHOTO CREDIT: ZÉ AMADO

I am a Rhode Island–based portrait and documentary photographer working across editorial, institutional, and cultural contexts.

My work focuses on people within structured environments—workplaces, organizations, performance spaces, and community systems—where identity is shaped through both individual presence and surrounding conditions.

Letter From Birmingham City Jail at Mixed Magic Theatre. January 2021.

With a background in theater direction and performance practice at Mixed Magic Theatre (since 2010), I bring an ongoing interest in staging, timing, and attention.

This informs my approach to photography as a structured encounter shaped by behavior, space, and awareness.

I understand portraiture not as a fixed category, but as a relational space formed between photographer, subject, and context.

Editorial

I work within defined constraints to build narrative clarity through observation and responsiveness.

Institutional

I collaborate with organizations to produce portraiture and documentation that support communication while preserving individual specificity.

Independent

I explore slower approaches to presence, identity, and lived experience through long-form inquiry.

Across all contexts, the work is guided by attentiveness, trust-building, and how people are seen within structured environments. My practice is a negotiation between subject, space, and attention—where meaning emerges through relationship as much as documentation.

My full CV is available here


SELECTED WORK


COMMUNITY ACCESS

Community Access is part of my broader practice. Each year, I maintain a limited number of opportunities for individuals, groups, and organizations where full production rates are not feasible. These are not discounted commercial projects. They are collaborative and selected based on alignment with ongoing portrait, institutional, and community-based work.

May include:

  • Participation in portrait sessions or installations

  • Reduced-fee or shared-resource collaborations

  • Partnerships with cultural, civic, or nonprofit organizations

  • Time-limited or project-based work

Availability is intentionally limited to maintain balance across all areas of practice.


Presence exhibition at Brown University. 2024.