Bio

Born and raised in Los Angeles, California, I rediscovered photography 10 years ago after watching the Sebastiao Salgado documentary, The Salt of the Earth. It was 45 years ago in high school when I was first introduced to photography during a class in my senior year. While I don't remember much about the class or what I learned, something must have stuck with me all these years that a documentary movie about Salgado would inspire me to go out and get my first digital camera and pursue the art of story telling through images. Today I spend most of my time shooting fine art, portrait and street photography, but more often than not, I will go out and shoot other genres such as wildlife, minimal and architecture. I do this because I truly believe that working with other genres will help me expand my knowledge of photography and reach my artistic goals. In my short time behind the camera, I have been fortunate enough to have several of my images appear in galleries across the U.S. and Europe, including Photo Place Gallery, A Smith Gallery, Praxis Gallery, Black Box Gallery, SE Center for Photography, PH 21 Gallery, Blank Wall Gallery, New York Center for Photographic Art, Camelback Gallery, Art Fluent Gallery, the Tag Gallery, Texas Photographic Society and the Decode Gallery. Gallery Exhibitions: International Grand Prix of Photography in Rossano 2017 International Grand Prix of Photography in Rossano 2018 2021 Exhibitions "Travelled Paths" Decode Gallery "The Shape of Things" Praxis Gallery "Black and White" Decode Gallery "Don't Make Me Laugh" Praxis Gallery 2022 Exhibitions "Viewpoint: Landscape and Architecture" Black Box Gallery "In Color" Decode Gallery "Black and White" Black Box Gallery "Open Vision" Decode Gallery "Black, White and Monochrome" SE Center of Photography "Dynamic: Shadow and Light" Black Box Gallery The Streets" Praxis Gallery - Director's Choice Award "Color Space: Contemporary Photography" Black Box Gallery "Color" SE Center of Photography "Animalia" A Smith Gallery - Juror's Award "Animal Beings" Praxis Gallery - Catalogue Cover Photo "Color" Photo Place Gallery "Black and White" Decode Gallery "Scapes" PH21 Gallery Budapest "Photo Shoot" Black Box Gallery "Motion" PH21 Gallery Rome - Honorable Mention "The Life of Color" Praxis Gallery "Black and White" Praxis Gallery 2023 Exhibitions "Composition: Photography Now" Black Box Gallery "Street Photography" Blank Wall Gallery "Black and White" New York Center for Photographic Art - Juror's Selection "Frames Within Frames" Praxis Gallery "Taking Pictures: 2023" Black Box Gallery "Architecture" SE Center of Photography "Fine Art" Blank Wall Gallery "Urban" PH21 Gallery "Black and White X" Camelback Gallery "Animalia" Photo Place Gallery "The Shadow Aspect" Praxis Gallery "Chania International Photo Festival" Blank Wall Gallery "Animalia" Art Fluent "Lines, Shapes & Objects" Fusion Art "Black and White - Classification People" OC County Fair Photography Competition Publications: 2021 Eye Photo Magazine - February issue 2022 All About Photo - #25 June issue - Black and White Photography Contests 2022 Chromatic Photography Awards 2022 3rd Place in the category of Street Photography 3 Honorable mentions in the categories of Street Photography and Fine Art 2023 reFocus Awards 2023 2 Honorable Mentions in the categories of Architecture and Minimal