At the age of nineteen, I was pursuing a career in music as a French Horn major. It was my desire to be a studio musician and play background music for cartoons. (The Horn licks in cartoons are amazing!) When my parents gave me a Canon AE- 1 Program for my nineteenth birthday, I put down my Horn and started making images. I was smitten by the amazing properties of photography. The idea that I could aim my camera at something or someone that interested me, develop the film, make a print, study the print, and learn from it still captivates me after 29 years. I’ve been involved in almost every aspect of photography including working in local processing labs and photo supply stores, owning my own commercial studio, receiving a BFA in photography from The College of Santa Fe, and teaching photography at Santa Fe University of Art and Design. Making images and learning from them is still important to me.

I am currently working several bodies of work. Some deal with family dynamics and includes photographs of my twenty three-year-old daughter, Corey, and her friends, my five-year-old son Jackson and my parents in their retirement years. The others explore Fundamental Evangelicalism in the South where I grew up, the landscape of the South and the men that inhabit the South. All are extremely personal and are more about me and my journey through life than they are about the subjects I am photographing.

I still play my French Horn and am presently learning to play the Banjo.