For fifteen years I've made a living with a camera. Less artist than "shadow artist". Great with a camera and lights and forever iterating to the entertainment and surprise (or annoyance) of clients, but working passion-adjacent. I've paid rent by photographing for some of the biggest and most prestigious of companies from Apple to the North Face to the San Francisco Symphony and quite grateful for it, but the work, I could take it or leave it.
Thus I've never considered myself a commercial photographer. Though I've found inspiration and joy in the people I've worked with, the work itself seldom has provided the same. Good at what I do, but no different than any other craftsman. A "lens-based plumber," if you will.
At least publicly. The work I do by day I do because I'm required to, because people are paying to see it. The TIMEBLIND series, however I didn't create for anyone other than me. I continue to create them because there's no way I can't. I hold a camera, move through the world, and these emerge.
Some of these images, printed obscenely large, grace a few private collector walls. I hope in 2024 to make them into an obscenely large book.
