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The birth of my photography took place when I was 12 - I borrowed my dad's camera to photograph a family of deer in our backyard. I returned the camera in pieces, but I got the shot, and the rest is history.
I am inspired by the virtuosity of Miles Davis, Thom Yorke, and Steven Reich, the urban strokes of Basquiat and Frank, the independent thinking of Thoreau and Vonnegut, and the love of my family and friends. I absorb these influences and look inward before turning outward to deconstruct my world.
As a traveler of America's changing urban landscapes, my camera seems to find misplaced things and forgotten people.
Many photographers have traversed the globe, documenting life in exotic places. It goes without saying that I respect those endeavors, but I am more interested in my immediate surroundings - I've laid on train tracks in Memphis, chased after marathon runners in Boston, froze on the beaches of Brooklyn, been confronted by The Secret Service, and looked into the watery eyes of a Vietnam vet in the nation's capital.
My lifelong pursuit in photography is to capture, as Walt Whitman writes, "The experience [of] sweet and sad."
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