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Artist Statement

For me, wild places are holy places. I hope that my work will touch the soul, stir imagination, and rekindle a sense of wonder in us all.

Art Meets Science

A deeper understanding of all living things has helped to fuel my creative passions, and the medium of photography has allowed me to comfortably bring the worlds of art and science together. In college and graduate school, I included drawing, painting, photography, and art appreciation with studies in ecology and evolutionary biology.

Much of my thinking and photography is aimed at telling stories. To a great extent this comes from my academic background and desire to communicate ideas and experiences with depth. My love of wildlife and animal behavior led me to motion picture work. Cinematography is a great story-telling medium and relieves the frustration of using stills to portray a world that never stands still.

On the other hand, it’s also quite wonderful to be able to capture and contemplate a single moment frozen in time. I have an endless fascination with the ephemeral, be it as short as a lightning flash or as “long” as a desert wildflower bloom. A fundamental lesson learned from ecology is that the extremes provide the cutting edge for evolution. Most people think in terms of the norm -average temperature, average rainfall, average behavior, etc.- but biologically and photographically, the most meaningful and exciting phenomena occur at the outer limits. This is undoubtedly the reason I’m captivated by deserts and have chosen to live in one.