what I do:

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I’m a 28 year-old photographer from Edmonton, Canada that has been working on creative projects and in the commercial photography industry for 3-years.

Photography is an art that combines everything I love about life. It’s about being uncomfortable, chasing after adventure, developing curiosity about the world and culture, all the while being attentive to what is right in front of you in that moment. I decided to pursue my passion in photography because through all of this, the reward of capturing a special moment and being able to share that with others is like nothing else I have ever felt.

So far I’ve worked on projects in almost all areas of photography, including natural light/studio portraiture, interior design, product photography, weddings from a formal and candid perspective, and everything in between. To me, the best photographs come from a natural setting when you are shooting simply because you want to, so I’ve built my career and life around projects that I feel a strong connection with, where taking and sharing pictures just feels right instead of a chore.

I’m fascinated with storytelling—having the ability to share what I feel when I’m out in the world adventuring is wildly exciting. It makes me want to squeeze everything I can out of life and hopefully inspire others to want to do the same.

I believe that storytelling images are a product of being in the right place at the right time. Discovering exactly what that means to me has been a journey of challenge and reward that has taught me so much about myself and what drives me as a human who wants to make the world a better place.

I want to be a part of projects that mean something.

As an engineer by background, I see a great deal of potential to help others with the engineering skillset, and have been fortunate to find opportunities to blend this with my love for photography. Recently, I volunteered to help build an 81m suspended bridge in a rural municipality called Churicala in the Bolivian Andes.

The goal of the project was to provide access to healthcare and education to more than 400 members of the community during the rainy season. Churicala was special to me for a number of reasons, but to sum it all up it felt amazing to be able to experience a whole new culture while living out my passions and helping others.

The photography when you find yourself in a place like Churicala is like nothing else. You are emersed in a naturally stunning environment with people that you’ve never met or interacted with before. Days of labour working on site are complimented with gracious invitations to community gatherings that in themselves are a treasure to experience, let alone photograph. To me, it’s a beautiful coincidence that the most powerful photos come from going on adventures like these.

My photography print artwork was a major source of funding for my contribution to the Churicala project, and will be for others like it in the future.

Photography is an art best experienced through print. It’s easy today to limit it to a few inches on a digital screen, but in reality images become so much more powerful when they’re presented with care and attention in a tangible way. Seeing something as a large print just makes it feel different. To me, this transition from a photograph to a piece of art is where the creative expression really takes over, and you being to fixate on the details because of how much they actually matter. There’s no better feeling than creating something that you’re proud of.

I started building hardwood frames with my dad in the shop shortly after I fell in love with printing, and to me putting everything together is the final form of what I create from my experience as a human. These pieces are the physical form of what I feel when I’m lost in the woods at night, under neon lights in a new city, or sharing a meal with new friends from different places. I’ve been lucky to also use these pieces as a fundraising avenue to be able to carry out projects like Churicala—to me that’s what life is all about.

It feels right to have these fuel the writing of the next chapter.

My goal is to contribute to and document at least 3 meaningful projects per year, and fund this through the sales of my artwork.

I have a never-ending appreciation for everyone who has supported my past projects and will continue to support me in the future, I'm so lucky to be surrounded by such big hearts.