I have spent over twenty-five years photographing people. My task is to see past the demeanor, past the discomfort of being in front of a camera, to something authentically real. I’ve always loved engaging with people one-on-one. I am, by nature, very introspective. I would rather spend an hour with one person, listening and paying close attention, than be in a crowd. That instinct shapes every session I photograph. I want to understand who someone is during the time we spend together. And that kind of attention is what allows someone to be at ease and simply be themselves.

When photographing a dancer, what I am looking for exists in a sliver of time, an instant that the eye alone would miss, but the camera immortalizes. Time, and what’s imperceptible about it, has stayed at the center of my work from the beginning, that split-second where a person expresses something profound and indescribable. I’ve built a body of work around capturing that moment. 

Light is an obsession of mine. While I go on location sometimes, especially to photograph skaters which I love, my studio is my sanctuary. It gives me full creative control, natural light from two walls of windows when I want it, complete darkness when I want that instead, so that every photograph begins with intention. I build much of what appears in my portraits myself. I have painted my own backdrops and made my own props, because I want every element of a session, down to the smallest detail, to serve the person in front of me.

My work has been shown in galleries and exhibits in the Boston area, and that body of work matters deeply to me. I give so much of myself to every session. I think of photography not just as a service, but as one of my life’s greatest passions that is continuously evolving, one portrait at a time.

Outside the studio, I’m usually chasing light somewhere else entirely. My work has taken me around the country and across the world, photographing people, places, solar eclipses, the night skies, anything that shows me a new way to see.