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Photo Feature in One Frame Magazine
February 3, 2012 | Filed In: News, Press

Just got a copy of a recent spread One Frame Magazine did on my photography. The magazine looks beautiful and they did a great job of selecting the photographers and their work for the issue [...]


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Interview for Lights n’ Colours
November 5, 2011 | Filed In: News, Press

Recently, I was asked to do an interview with the blog Lights n’ Colours about my photography. We talked about how I got into conceptual photography and how I go about executing my pictures [...]


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Some of us cannot be free
October 17, 2011 | Filed In: Flickr Photos

This image is very personal to me. The idea here is that in spite of the beauty of the world, many of us will never truly be free to enjoy it because we are trapped- trapped by dogma, trapped by routine, trapped by our inability to escape their own emotions. I often feel that way myself [...]

Some of us cannot be free.


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Big Shoes to Fill
October 6, 2011 | Filed In: Flickr Photos

It’s times like these, when I don’t have a lot of new photography ideas coming in, that I’m thankful I have a backlog of images written down in my notebooks. This is one of the first photo ideas I ever had. I had actually started believing that this photo would only ever exist as an ugly stick figure in a notebook [...]
Big Shoes to Fill


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Relationship In Photography: Telling Better Stories In Our Images
October 3, 2011 | Filed In: Essays

Something I’ve been thinking about a lot lately is the idea of relationship in photography and how creating interesting relationships in our images helps us not only tell better stories, but create better images. In acting class, the teacher will often ask the actor, “What is your relationship to the other character in this scene?” [...]


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The Return
September 25, 2011 | Filed In: Flickr Photos

This was shot around the same time as this image and was intended to be a kind of sister image. I wanted to imply a story of a woman whose body is washed ashore after some kind of shipwreck, whose soul then arises and returns to the sea [...]
The Return


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