As a child growing up in New Hampshire, I would spend hours drawing and coloring. In kindergarten, we were asked to draw our favorite animal, and
while most kids drew cats and dogs, I drew a cow. I don't remember why I chose a cow exactly, but I suspect I just wanted to draw something
different from what the other kids were drawing. Maybe it was just more fun to draw a cow than a cat in my 6-year old opinion, or maybe I wanted to give the underappreciated cow its just desserts.
Art remained a constant as I grew up, learning design and perspective in high school and experimenting with color. The real revelation came when I learned to develop and print black and white film in college. That is where the love affair began. After a year of intensive photo instruction at Hallmark Institute of Photography, I came to New York to intern for one of my favorite photographers of all time,
Mary Ellen Mark. Her intense, photojournailstic images reveal many layers of her subjects. While not always beautiful, her subjects have a quiet beauty about them.
My own trials with photography have led me to shooting weddings in a
photojournalistic way that captures the quiet and not-so-quiet moments of
the day. I look for the beauty in moments, often finding a different
perspective from what the other kids in the class see.
