The approach
Portrait photography shaped by collaboration, patience, and a background in nature and street photography. Here's what that means in practice.
Not every photographer will tell your story.
There's a particularly Midwest kind of portrait photography: golden hour, cornfields, soft focus, saying: "Cheese!" (Or maybe sometimes: "TRACTOR!") It can be beautiful and many photographers excel at making these portraits.
I'm not one of those.
My photography background is in portrait work, nature, and street photography — alongside about twenty years in marketing and brand content strategy. I've learned to capture what makes something its own: its story, context, culture and purpose.
I work with people to find something deeply personal and intentional. I can make images for professional or personal brands, or celebrate meaningful milestones. My favourite kind of portrait is made when someone is exploring just for themself.
We start with exploration, and work towards expression.
For your brand, your family, or just yourself
Practically, these sessions produce work you can use — faculty pages, research profiles, professional and social media content, a modeling portfolio.
But I'm equally interested in what sits outside the practical: someone exploring how they want to be seen; a couple or family making something true about who they actually are. Queer families, blended families, people who've never found a photographer who saw them right — these are exactly the stories I want to tell.
The result is something specific, a bit unexpected, and expressively yours.
I'm exploring, too.
If you've got something on your mind — even the very stub of an artistic idea — let's talk. I'm open to experiment and work on translating imagination into imagery.
Costume, location, style... we can collaborate on an artistic project and help get your concepts down onto paper (or up on a screen). I'm especially interested in working with fashion designers, makeup artists, and artists who want to bring photography into the mix.
Landscape & abstract work
The same eye I bring to portraits — attention to light, texture, and mood — applied to the natural and abstract world.
Let's start a conversation
Tell me what you're thinking — the ideas you have, what you want to explore, what you want to make. Then we can talk.