about

my story

I picked up my first camera, a Ricoh 35mm, when I was 25. Not knowing how to use it, I ventured off, traveling around Europe with my camera and a bunch of film. That was the beginning for me.

After a career as an art director and branding specialist, as well as raising a daughter who has been a subject for my lens, the same passion for photography that I had in my 20s has resurfaced, and this time around, I get to work in both film and digital.

artists statement

Surfaces tell a story, but they can also be deceiving because nothing in the world is quite what it seems. Human brains are pattern-seekers, creating expectations for how we perceive the world. For humans, seeing through to the heart of things is impossible, but using photography to defamiliarize objects makes an attempt at “truth.” Photos can say more about what’s in our brains than they do about the photographed objects themselves. I hope that my photos break our habitual notions, thereby dismantling grand narratives that prescribe rigid ways to be in the world. To this end, I play with distortion and unusual perspectives to make objects or plants look like human body parts and bodies look like non-human forms, which not only shatters preconceptions, but also makes the statement that humans, as much as we like to believe ourselves separate, are an integral part of the natural world.