PRACTICE

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.

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

My practice moves between commissioned and independent work across editorial assignments, institutional collaborations, and long-form photographic inquiries.

In editorial environments, I work within defined constraints to build narrative clarity through observation and responsiveness. In institutional contexts, I collaborate with organizations to produce portraiture and documentation that support communication while preserving individual specificity. In independent work, I explore slower approaches to presence, identity, and lived experience.

Across all contexts, the work is guided by attentiveness, trust-building, and how people are seen within structured environments.

I primarily work in black and white, incorporating color when the context requires it. I approach photography as a continuous negotiation between subject, space, and attention, where meaning emerges through relationship as much as documentation.

My full CV is available here

SELECTED WORK

• Rhode Island Monthly — “On The Night Shift” Photo Essay (2026)

• Barr Foundation — Institutional Photography (2024–Present)

• WaterFire Arts Center — Growing the NetWorks (2025)

• City of Providence — Who We Are Now Public Art Project (2022)

• Mixed Magic Theatre — Artistic Direction (2010–Present)

COMMUNITY ACCESS

Community Access is part of my broader practice, not a separate pricing tier.

Each year, I maintain a limited number of opportunities for individuals, groups, and organizations where full production rates are not feasible due to structural, cultural, or financial constraints.

These projects are not discounted commercial work. They are shaped collaboratively and selected based on fit with ongoing portrait, institutional, and community-based practice.

Community Access may include participation in portrait sessions or installation-based projects, reduced-fee or shared-resource collaborations, partnerships with cultural, civic, or nonprofit organizations, and time-limited or project-based work.

Availability is intentionally limited to maintain balance across commissioned, institutional, and editorial practice, ensuring consistent care and production integrity across all work.

My work is centered on attention, presence, and the conditions under which people are seen. Photography is a form of structured observation shaped by relationships, environments, and the act of being present with others.