I spent most of 2010 living in and exploring South East Asia. While there I rekindled my love for photography. Although I graduated from UMBC with a BA in Visual Art (emphasizing in photography), over the years I moved away from the medium and worked more with charcoal, clay, bones, stones and twigs--creating folkish art and totem figures. I was in one of the last graduating classes at UMBC that emphasized the darkroom for post-processing, and it took me a very long time to accept the transition into the digital process. I even left for SEA without my camera at first, but while in New Mexico prior to my departure I realized the mistake and had my brother ship me my Nikon D70.
I have returned home to Baltimore with well over 5000 photographs to process and edit into a narrative. The project is broken down for you here into countries. Most of my free time is now being spent working on this massive body of work as well as staying behind the camera and realizing a project on appalachian architecture and culture.

I spent most of 2010 living in and exploring South East Asia. While there I rekindled my love for photography. Although I graduated from UMBC with a BA in Visual Art (emphasizing in photography), over the years I moved away from the medium and worked more with charcoal, clay, bones, stones and twigs--creating folkish art and totem figures. I was in one of the last graduating classes at UMBC that emphasized the darkroom for post-processing, and it took me a very long time to accept the transition into the digital process. I even left for SEA without my camera at first, but while in New Mexico prior to my departure I realized the mistake and had my brother ship me my Nikon D70.
I have returned home to Baltimore with well over 5000 photographs to process and edit into a narrative. The project is broken down for you here into countries. Most of my free time is now being spent working on this massive body of work as well as staying behind the camera and realizing a project on appalachian architecture and culture.

I spent most of 2010 living in and exploring South East Asia. While there I rekindled my love for photography. Although I graduated from UMBC with a BA in Visual Art (emphasizing in photography), over the years I moved away from the medium and worked more with charcoal, clay, bones, stones and twigs--creating folkish art and totem figures. I was in one of the last graduating classes at UMBC that emphasized the darkroom for post-processing, and it took me a very long time to accept the transition into the digital process. I even left for SEA without my camera at first, but while in New Mexico prior to my departure I realized the mistake and had my brother ship me my Nikon D70.
I have returned home to Baltimore with well over 5000 photographs to process and edit into a narrative. The project is broken down for you here into countries. Most of my free time is now being spent working on this massive body of work as well as staying behind the camera and realizing a project on appalachian architecture and culture.

I spent most of 2010 living in and exploring South East Asia. While there I rekindled my love for photography. Although I graduated from UMBC with a BA in Visual Art (emphasizing in photography), over the years I moved away from the medium and worked more with charcoal, clay, bones, stones and twigs--creating folkish art and totem figures. I was in one of the last graduating classes at UMBC that emphasized the darkroom for post-processing, and it took me a very long time to accept the transition into the digital process. I even left for SEA without my camera at first, but while in New Mexico prior to my departure I realized the mistake and had my brother ship me my Nikon D70.
I have returned home to Baltimore with well over 5000 photographs to process and edit into a narrative. The project is broken down for you here into countries. Most of my free time is now being spent working on this massive body of work as well as staying behind the camera and realizing a project on appalachian architecture and culture.

I spent most of 2010 living in and exploring South East Asia. While there I rekindled my love for photography. Although I graduated from UMBC with a BA in Visual Art (emphasizing in photography), over the years I moved away from the medium and worked more with charcoal, clay, bones, stones and twigs--creating folkish art and totem figures. I was in one of the last graduating classes at UMBC that emphasized the darkroom for post-processing, and it took me a very long time to accept the transition into the digital process. I even left for SEA without my camera at first, but while in New Mexico prior to my departure I realized the mistake and had my brother ship me my Nikon D70.
I have returned home to Baltimore with well over 5000 photographs to process and edit into a narrative. The project is broken down for you here into countries. Most of my free time is now being spent working on this massive body of work as well as staying behind the camera and realizing a project on appalachian architecture and culture.

I spent a couple summers on a mesa on the outskirts of the town Truth or Consequences along with goats, donkeys, chickens, coyotes, rattlesnakes, strange flora, and dear people. We had no electricity or running water on the mesa--only ourselves and our little Mad Max post-apocolyptic world. TorC is a second home for me, I've been there many times. The desert wakes me up and rattles my bones like no place else in the world. Below are some photographs from a few of my visits to this wondrous part of our planet.

I have been visiting the town of Thomas, West Virginia for the last 10 years. I have recently spent a couple weeks there since my return from Southeast Asia in order to collect my thoughts about returning to the United States and to work on the massive body of work I did overseas. I'm finding myself drawn the architecture of the buildings there. I'm curious about how their design has inscribed the culture of appalachia. This project is in an infantile stage--shown are just some examples of the imagery I intend to work with. I am also interested in tying this into the devastating impacts of mountaintop removal that is happening in the region.

These are samples of my artistic and creative photographic work.

My other side....
I'm a big fan of the horror genera. These kitchy photographs were taken inside various hunted houses throughout the USA. I offer them here to lighten up my nomination profile (in a dark kinda way).

Here are a few examples of my explorations in folk art.