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 and Awards include 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, The Chateau Gallery, Camelback Gallery, Art Fluent Gallery, The Tag Gallery, Texas Photographic Society, the Decode Gallery, Colorado Photographic Arts Center, The Center for Fine Art Photography, The Orange County Fair Photography Competition, the 2025 San Diego Museum of Art Artists Guild International Juried Exhibition and the International Grand Prix of Photography in Rossano, Italy. Additional honors include 3rd place in the category of Street Photography for the Chromatic Photography Awards 2022 as well as honorable mentions with reFocus Awards 2022, Monochrome Awards 2023 & 2024, Paris Street Photography Awards 2023, International Color Awards 2023, Minimalist Photography Awards 2022, ND Awards 2024 & 2025 and the Black and White Spider Awards 2023. Publications include Eye Photo Magazine 2021, All About Photo Magazine 2022 and Street Photography Magazine the September 2024 issue and the October 2025 issue. I