About
I compose, I light, I wait for the right expression, and my invoices are mostly on time. I've lit a chef with nothing but a bare bulb and a bounce card in a walk-in cooler. I've photographed an elderly cat psychologist mid-monologue to her Siamese in a book-lined apartment, a guy racing a modified lawnmower at a county fair, and Wayne Newton in front of the Flamingo marquee at golden hour, on cue, first take. I've talked a chihuahua in a jester costume into holding still, which is harder than it sounds. I've shot a shotgun, a wood-fired pizza oven, and a man kneading dough for a Martha Stewart cooking class, sometimes in the same week.
I picked up a Pentax K1000 at sixteen and never really put it down. Brooks Institute taught me the technical side. Twenty years of assignments taught me the rest: kitchens, casino floors, showrooms, and whatever's happening backstage when nobody's supposed to be watching. Last year I served as a judge for the James Beard Awards for visuals, which was a genuinely strange and wonderful thing to get asked to do.
On weekends, my wife and I are basically an Uber service for our two boys between sports. We laugh, we occasionally lose our minds, and by Friday we've earned the same pizza and a different bottle of wine every time. A few years back I climbed Mt. Whitney solo. Took seventeen hours. I'd do it again, badly.
I currently work as Associate Creative Director of Photography for Caesars Entertainment, and take on freelance assignments independently for hospitality, food, and entertainment clients.
Clients include Caesars Entertainment, Condé Nast Traveler, Bon Appétit, Saveur, Hennessy, Visa, Target, and Tumi, with agency partners at Ogilvy, BBDO, and Eyeball.
