ABOUT THE PHOTOGRAPHER

It began with a mushroom.

In 2023, burned out after years of travel, study, and work, I stumbled into photography by chance. A friend forgot her phone and asked me to take a picture of a mushroom she was interested in — and something shifted. What began as a simple favor became a new way of seeing the world.

Shortly after my birth in Portland, Oregon in 1977, my family moved to Houston, Tx — there I learned to find beauty and wilderness even in a concrete jungle. That instinct to look closer carried me through years of travel and living abroad, where new cultures, languages, and landscapes became my real education. Motherhood, study, and an invisible struggle with depression slowly intertwined, eventually pushing me toward a breaking point I could no longer outrunAfter a decade in shadow, I found a treatment that worked in 2024—and with it, a new sense of reverence for the world around me.

These experiences live in my photographs, both the good and the bad. I create photographs across landscape, street, and conceptual genres as quiet acts of devotion—mapping the soul’s journey through transformation, memory, and presence.

My landscapes act as metaphors for becoming. My street work reveals the beauty of odd details and fleeting moments — some staged and saturated, others intimate and monochrome. I’m drawn to the quiet absurdities of everyday life: mannequins with too-human gazes, ceramic gnomes lined up in devotion, a pharaoh holding court from an old phone booth. These odd moments are invitations to connect, to slow down, to remember what it means to be human.

In all my work, I explore the tension between fear and tenderness, imperfection and grace. I believe in images as maps, oddness as a portal, and reverence as a radical act of seeing. Each image is part of a story unfolding — I invite you to step inside and find your own.