Bio

I am a film and historic process photographer based in the Mid-Ohio Valley, specializing in large-format panoramic and wet-plate collodion photography. My passion for film photography began in childhood, inspired by time spent in my older brother’s darkroom. This early interest deepened during my college years when I picked up my first 35mm camera.

Throughout my career, I have worked in print and radio journalism, communications, and arts venue management - experiences that have nurtured my creative storytelling. Over time, my fascination with traditional photography evolved into a focus on historical photographic processes. Today, I often use a 1921 Cirkut No. 10 panoramic camera and even earlier 19th-century wet-plate tools and techniques to capture unique images of people and places in West Virginia, Ohio, and wherever I happen to bring one of my cameras along.

My work is driven by a desire to tell a story of the places and people I encounter, as well as a passion for preserving and sharing historical photographic methods, offering a tactile connection between the past and present through each image I create.

From 2004 through 2013 my photographs and stories appeared weekly on the pages of The Pocahontas Times where I worked as a staff writer, photographer, and digital media manager. My work has also appeared in The Sun Magazine, The Washington City Paper, Greenbrier Valley Quarterly, and the book The Old Man of the Mountain: Eldridge McComb. I was also a founding member of the Pocahontas County Artisan Cooperative Gallery. I have exhibited in juried events at the Randolph Community Arts Center in Elkins and the West Virginia Cultural Center in Charleston. My first solo exhibition, Elemental Photography: Light, Silver, Iron—featuring a selection of tintypes and gelatin silver prints—took place at Carnegie Hall in Lewisburg, West Virginia, in 2012.