I received my BFA in Film/Video from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. I've just finished my MFA at Pratt Institute in Photography, the medium I first fell in love with at 15 in Omaha's Career Center vocational photo program.

I take a photograph when I notice something in my immediate environment that is unusual, or seems not to belong (logically) in that space/time. When this strangeness is clearly evident in the photograph I've taken, I consider the image complete. When the bizarre element is not immediately apparent, I make physical alterations to the surface of the photograph after printing, to highlight or clarify the peculiarity that caused me to document the situation. None of my work is staged or digitally composited. I've only been a photographer for 16 years but I've been drawing on things I shouldn't draw on for as long as I could hold a pen - so it's natural that I draw on my photographs sometimes.

I write for the Artseen section of the Brooklyn Rail each month, in addition to other nice freelance writing adventures.

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