Honoring the people in front of my camera is one way I feel I can bring positivity to life. These portraits are friends, family, strangers and commissions that I’ve completed over the last year or two.
I’ve been a musician and a photographer almost all of my life. I would almost call it a duty that I feel in capturing the creative magnetism of musicians and artists. I understand completely the tight rope walk of introversion and extroversion they live daily and enjoy celebrating their magical personalities.
Our world is made interesting by our pursuit of creation in any form. To me chefs are anxious rockstars, acting like creative directors, in aprons. I get them. Visualizing and celebrating the food they create is something I will never grow tired of exploring.
Cuba is vibrant and rich beyond all of my inadequate preconceptions. The country’s extremes unfolded looking at once like welcoming smiles and decaying infrastructure. I anxiously put myself into the rich world that lies only ninety miles from the coast of Florida in the fall of 2014. My vulnerability was rewarded with the trust and love of the human spirit that surrounded me.
Life often turns out differently than you thought it would. You aren’t where you thought you would be, doing what you thought you would do, with the people you thought you would be with. Some days you realize you are outside, surrounded by people, and you are the odd one out. These images highlight and normalize a universal feeling of displacement. Sometimes we just are. And that’s ok.
About this series:
The complete series is comprised of 29 images. All images are available in limited edition archival prints. Inquire about fine prints.
An oversized limited edition zine is available containing all 29 of the series. Order it here.
An interview regarding this work was done with Leica Camera. You can find it here.
From 2015 until 2019 I went to Iceland four times trying diligently to get my head around its wonders. Some of this work was originally published in The Photographic Journal as a series called Search Party. You can view it here.
This work was originally created for Edible Ohio Valley Magazine. I quickly fell in love with Chef Willocks’ vision and approach to original food created with seasonal and local ingredients. The Baker’s Table is the real deal. Like a flag of sorts, a poster hanging in the kitchen boldly proclaims “Give a fuck.”. I too tried to stick to that ethos as I made these images.
The English Tradition of the fox hunt is alive and well in the hills east of Cincinnati. This work celebrates the beauty and traditions that remain today in a world so far removed from the sporting rituals of yesterday. The hunt is no longer a hunt to the finish as the foxes are merely chased but the spirit of community and sport thrives. Created for the Camargo Hunt, Cincinnati Ohio.
This work was awarded a Best-In-Show Award of Excellence from Communications Arts in their 2023, 64th Photography Annual.
Promotional work created to help promote wedding vendors and small businesses in the Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky area.
This body of work was created for an advertising agency that was in search of a photographic approach to elevate this tequila brand to a more premium visual language. Over the course of two days I created a series of specific visual guides each with a distinct style and creative strategy behind it. These are some of the results from this creative exploration.
Forbidden is the spirit industry’s first white corn and white winter wheat expression of bold Kentucky Bourbon. The design of the brand and bottle is complex, multi-faceted and exudes a non-traditional and distinctively premium feel. The bottle and beverages were photographed in multiple settings to create a high-quality brand library for the client. Design by Holotype Studio. Creative Director Dale Doyle. Styling, retouching and photography by MT.