I am an artist from the Bay Area currently living in Los Angeles. I mostly shoot live music photography, album covers, and music videos. During the COVID-19 pandemic, I have been experimenting with virtual photography techniques, as well as getting back into abstract painting. As restrictions loosen and Covid cases lower, I am offering in-person studio shoots in my LA living room to those who are fully vaccinated. My studio set up is also mobile, making it so I can transform any indoor space into a professional studio. I work across a wide variety of mediums and am open to all types of creative projects.

I have a foundation in studio art, but I always struggled to capture the realistic images that I envisioned. This led me to create abstract paintings and drawings, and to focus on large group projects such as building sets and props for theater and film.

I began experimenting with digital photography when I was working at a punk music venue. I have many memories of playing with various techniques on the grimy floor, dodging moshing feet. When I discovered the “multiple exposure” mode in my camera, I was enthralled by the abstraction of reality. Every shot became image layered upon image, a distortion of bodies swinging guitars.

When I learned film photography I was fortunate enough to work in one of the few remaining community college darkrooms in Oakland. Shooting manually and the process of developing and printing film became my passion and led me to innovate different ways to create surreal effects, which is where I found the beauty in prisms. I use all types of reflective surfaces in my work, but mostly I build my own prisms to fit around or over each different type of lens. Almost all of the surreal images that you see are made in-camera, rather than using photoshop.

I moved to Los Angeles for school, where I got a degree in Sociology from UCLA. I found within this academic topic a new way of looking at the art world. All forms of art are connected. My experience as a studio artist has given me patience. My experience on film and theater sets has given me a very detail oriented eye. My experience in the music scene as well as studying sociology has shown me how invaluable community and collectivity is. I create unique artwork because I know how important art is as a tool for social change. 

Many forms of mainstream and popular photography limit creativity, and they limit subject variability often excluding different identities. My photography business intends to defy that. It was built with the passion and support of the boundary pushing, resilient artists that make up my diverse queer community. In creating my art, my goals are to not only discompose modern and mainstream photography, but to emphasize the sociological imagination. I strive to connect with subjects and document them as they are, while simultaneously using surreal techniques to transform the environment into what it is not. I want my subjects to have the power of being seen while showing viewers the fluidity of multiple realities.