PRACTICE

I am a Rhode Island–based portrait and documentary photographer working across editorial, institutional, and cultural contexts. My practice is grounded in photographing people within structured environments—workplaces, organizations, performance spaces, and community systems—where identity is shaped through both individual presence and the conditions that surround it.

Having grown up in theater and worked in theater direction and performance practice at Mixed Magic Theatre since 2010, I carry a sustained interest in staging, presence, timing, and attention. This background informs how I approach photographic work: not only as documentation, but as a structured encounter shaped by behavior, space, and audience awareness.

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

CONTEXT

My practice moves between commissioned and independent work across editorial assignments, institutional collaborations, and long-term photographic inquiries. These contexts are not separate from the work—they define it.

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

Across all contexts, the approach remains consistent: building trust quickly, working with attentiveness, and producing images that function within systems of communication while retaining emotional and formal clarity.

RELATED PRACTICE

My approach to photography is also informed by academic study in history at Yale University, where I became interested in how narratives are constructed, how evidence is interpreted, and how people are situated within larger social and institutional frameworks. This continues to function as an intellectual grounding for how I think about images as systems of interpretation rather than simple documentation.

Alongside this, my work in theater direction and performance practice remains a primary influence on how I understand photographic space. Working in performance environments has shaped how I read bodies in space, how emotion is structured for an audience, and how meaning is produced through composition, timing, and attention.

Together, these experiences shape how I work with people in photographic contexts—particularly in situations where subjects are not professional models and where images are formed through collaboration, trust, and structured attention.

I also occasionally lead workshops focused on portraiture, visual perception, and photographic practice, extending these concerns into teaching environments that combine observation with hands-on image-making.

SELECTED WORK

Recent work includes an editorial photo essay for the April 2026 issue of Rhode Island Monthly documenting overnight labor across Rhode Island industries, and ongoing institutional photography for the Barr Foundation supporting organizational storytelling and visual communication.

My work spans editorial, institutional, and cultural collaborations across New England, including projects with theaters, universities, civic organizations, and private clients operating in structured environments.

POSITION

Across all contexts, my work remains centered on attention, presence, and the conditions under which people are seen. I approach photography as structured observation—shaped as much by relationships and environments as by the camera itself.