My love of photography started early in childhood. This passion was born in the pages of the National Geographic magazines I would collect as a child. Even before I was old enough to read and understand the words, I found myself frequently moved to tears by the photographs. As a young child, I always had a camera around my neck. I knew, from a very young age, that I wanted to be a photographer.

My path to becoming a photographer, however, was meandering and indirect. After studying political science at university, I was recruited into the military as an intelligence officer, where I specialized in narcoterrorism and counter-insurgency. This experience shaped and heavily influenced my views on foreign policy, the war on drugs, and the influence of capital interests in geopolitics. All of which heavily inform my art and the lens through which I view the world.

Now, as a disabled veteran and practicing photographic artist, my primary interest is to use the medium of photography to explore the sociocultural issues and questions that are important to me. When I practice photography, my goal is to tell a story or personally explore an issue.

It is for this reason that I call photography a medium of concentrated empathy; to adequately tell the story of another, I must connect and empathize with them. It’s a process that I find immensely healing and regenerative to the psyche and soul. It's my way of doing what I can to make the world a better, more connected place, one frame at a time.