About

Born in 1987, I grew up on our family farm in the small rural town of Bronson, Michigan, where there are more farm animals than people, a few churches, only two working traffic lights, and a bowling alley. Like any true Michigander, if you ask me where I’m from, I will indeed point out my town on my hand.

I moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts, started college at Harvard, and fell in love with the city of Boston. Ensuring I would spend most of my college career working in a dark basement staring at a screen or dusting negatives, I discovered my passion for making images. To the disappointment of many tourists I encountered daily on campus, I made art and graduated with a BA in Visual and Environmental Studies instead of studying to become a doctor, lawyer, or something else more impressive.

Not ready to leave the Northeast, or put down my camera just yet, I moved to Rochester, New York. There I quickly learned Upstate New York is actually the arctic, judging by its gray skies and cruel winter weather. On a campus surrounded by hipsters and engineers, I continued making photographs, moving images, and artist books, earning my MFA in Imaging Arts from RIT (Rochester Institute of Technology) in 2013.

While I haven’t moved back to the Midwest yet, I still find myself returning home, exploring concepts of family and place - though I tend to take more photographs with my phone than my Mamiya these days.