Creating Immersive Visual Experiences

Artist Statement

Photography entered my life the way most important things do — through inheritance and circumstance. My mother was a photographer, and when I was stationed overseas thirty years ago, I picked up my first camera and never put it down. Street photography became my foundation: it taught me to read a room before raising a lens, to find the image already present in the noise of a crowd, to be patient and instinctive at the same time. That discipline followed me through every genre I worked in — musicians, weddings, catalogs, landscapes — and eventually into moving images, where the frame never stops.

Today my practice centers on experimental video and live audiovisual performance. I build systems that respond in real time to sound, gesture, and environment — using shaders, feedback, and camera-based processes to create images that breathe and perform rather than simply play back.

The crowds and clubs I work in are the same spaces street photography trained me for: chaotic, alive, and full of unrepeatable moments. I'm interested in how those spaces can become temporary cinemas — where light, bodies, and architecture merge into a single instrument.

What drives all of it is the same thing that put a camera in my hands thirty years ago: the need to interpret life as it happens, and to share that interpretation with anyone willing to look.