I grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area with my childhood years spent watching the vast farmland of San Jose turn into Highway 85. I remember riding my bike through the orchards to go see a movie at the mall. Later, while earning a B.S. in Urban and Regional Studies at Cornell University, an elective photography course led me to discover photographs as a useful tool to illustrate the complex considerations of self and society within a city and regional setting. After graduating and managing the darkroom at Cornell, I then went on to study photography at the California College of the Arts.

My photographic process often revolves around place – the aesthetics of place, the collective social constructs around place, and my own position in the space between. From there, I focus my attention on the visceral qualities of place that brought me there initially, with respect to the original act of human agency that further defines each place.

In my work, I explore the inherent paradox in the development of human agency. Both my black and white and color images depict the effects of social construct on time and place. I am interested in examining myself at the personal, neighborhood, urban and global perspective.