Annual Hampden Mayors Christmas Parade, shot on ilford hp5- 35mm. 

Candid street photography taken around Baltimore, all shot on film.

Interacting with Humanity - Local Baltimorons.

@baltimore_scenes on instagram was started by myself and a few friends in February of 2024. Originally it was designed to highlight a specific space in the art community within Baltimore- photography. Every week, we curate a post compiled of local photographers work-what we call “weekly roundups” and we try to highlight new artist when we can. We also host monthly Photo Walks: choosing a different neighborhood in Baltimore each month to wander & explore with our cameras; and it started out small. Ten heads showed the first walk- to now we have had over 100 people show up for one walk! We encourage all demograpahics to join, you don't need fancy or expensive gear.  It's a good way to connect people in the art community, gives people new friends, new skills to practice. Starting Baltimore Scenes has allowed me to expand my skillset as a photographer, surround myself with different walks of life, and learn from everyone around me. Im forever grateful for this community and I hope our small instagram page can perhaps one day turn into a tangible monthly print. We were fortunate enough to have been asked to be apart of a short documentary with Maryland TV Station-which can be seen here : https://video.mpt.tv/video/be-inspired-a-day-of-thanks-film-festival-h8ljfy/ 

Live music on film is unmatched. You have to really feel it in your bones if you got the shot or not since you can't see your image right away like with digitals. There is something so rewarding about knowing and feeling that you got the perfect candid, and then actually getting what you intended to capture. 

Being in the darkroom is a magical, inexplicable feeling. It will have you losing track of time for 7 hours at a time. I would go in, early in the morning and wouldn't come out until the sun had gone down, unintentionally, trying to perfect the perfect print and exposure. It was a massive privilege for me to have access to such an incredibly stocked dark room at my college, Towson University. I was lucky in more than one way. It was my senior year, my very last semester and I needed 1 random elective credit, I saw they offered a film developing & printing class which raised my eyebrows. I had been wanting to learn for years and here was my opportunity. I noticed you needed a pre-rec for the class in which I did not have. I emailed the professor (a semester before the class started) and explained to her how passionate I am about film photography, how I had been doing it for at least 5 years at this point and how this was my last semester/last chance to get into the darkroom and that I would do anything for a spot in the class. She responded back mentioning she really loved my passion and would happily wave the pre-rec for me so I could be one of the ten people in this prestigious class. I was over the moon excited. I learned so much in this class, and firmly believe it has made my photography skills infinitely better. To be able to witness, let alone learn the science behind making a tangible photograph is a knowledge ill carry with me for the rest of my life. The chemistry making your image appear right before your eyes is an unmatched feeling that my words could never articulate. 

I met the owner of the Bmore Flea Market, Patrick Horvat, from being a frequent shopper at the flea. I would always have my camera on me and he started to notice me taking pictures of people's outfits that I liked, and he asked me to start photographing for the Instagram page. I would come and walk around and scout out anyone who had really cool outfits on, I'd ask if I could take their photo for the Instagram account, let them know its film and then they would always get really excited when I would mention to them that it's on film and would pose. It became a really cool gateway for me meeting other artist, people who make their own clothes or jewelry, people who are also into photography that we could exchange social media handles to support each other - it was amazing. I was quickly thrown into an environment with very likeminded creative individuals, something I was unaware I was lacking to be around. Being around other artist fuels you to keep creating. Its inspiring to be around other people that uplift your work and share with you theirs.