Some of us were born to be photographers. I, for one, emerged from my roll of film fully developed, squinting at the light like a misplaced negative. It was the twilight years of the analog era, not long before the digital revolution and the rise of social media. I grew up in a world surrounded by Kodak Moments and one hour photo labs and came of age when every household shared a single computer. In between doodling comics and exploring the woods near my house, I immersed myself in CD-ROMs and dial-up AOL sessions – even joining a computer club in middle school, where we mostly played Sim City and justified it as “urban planning experience.”

By the time I got to high school, I learned the basics of Adobe Photoshop 7.0 and got to use the school’s darkroom. After school, I would head to work at Moto Photo, where I’d develop film and print photos for the yearbook. And in the blink of an eye, film started disappearing, MySpace was busy ruining our top friendships, and I was off to college in New York City studying “new media” – a term that felt cutting-edge at the time but now sounds like something you’d find in a museum exhibit about the early 2000s. Before you knew it, I was coding a website in HTML and Flash all while photographing the city with my new DSLR, hoping to get cool backdrop photos for my comic book.

Then photography took over as my primary interest and my camera never left my side. All of life’s moments – and my place in history – culminated into a creative outlet that, even two decades later, still makes sense in an increasingly complicated world. All I need to do is stop, capture the moment, and that time is preserved.

My photography has always been highly influenced by my comic book background and sense of adventure. But a lot of what I capture – especially the moments I don’t share on social media – is rooted in nostalgia, an attempt to preserve time as best as I can. With all that and my analog experience, I enjoy scanning in old photos and preserving family history and memories from before my time – connecting stories to tangible moments in time. It’s no wonder I am also into genealogy and taking deep dives into the past – connecting my own life story to those who came before me.

My archival work and photography often focus on the past and present respectively, but my design work is definitely future focused. It has to be. All design is about current events and preparing for the next thing. From invitations, to brochures, to catalogs, and greeting cards, design connects and welcomes you to moments to come. So here I am, balancing the past, present, and future—scanning old photos one minute, designing for the future the next, and somehow still forgetting to update my website bio regularly.

As I look to the future, now with a daughter of my own – who, unlike me, emerged from an SD card – my hope is to take everything I’ve built over the years and use it to help you. Whether you’re looking for a unique photo, a custom Christmas card, or want to preserve old memories, you can be assured that my work is backed by a lifetime of experience and dedication.