Director of Photography | Educator

I've spent over twenty-five years learning how to see. First as a graphic designer, then as a photographer, and educating others to develop their own creative vision. The through-line has been the same: finding the story that isn't visible and bringing it into the light.

My photography draws from Caravaggio and the Italian Baroque tradition known as “Chiaroscuro”. The drama that happens when light meets darkness. When I photograph, whether music, theatre, or dance, I'm not documenting. I'm waiting for the moment of connection that reveals the experience.

I bring that same philosophy to my portrait and headshot work. I've had the privilege of working with renowned brands such as Revlon Professional, Wella International, Sebastian International, and American Crew. My photography has appeared in finalist collections at the Contessa Awards, Canada's most prestigious professional beauty competition, and I was part of a winning collection at the North American Hairstyling Awards (NAHA). But what I value most about this work isn't the recognition. It's what happens in the session itself. I believe a headshot is more than a photograph. It's an exploration. People arrive thinking they know how they want to be seen, and through the process, they discover something about themselves. They leave having invested not in an image, but in their own growth.

I have recently started as Director of Photography for Tempest Theatre in Penticton, where I'm building the visual identity and capturing the stories in the creative environment. Productions, headshots, behind-the-scenes storytelling, and archive development. The goal is to create a visual thumbprint that carries across everything they do.

This kind of work fills a gap I see in most organizations. I believe marketing is about strategy and distribution. Marketing departments push stories out through social media, press releases, and newsletters. But someone has to find those stories first. Someone has to be the witness, the one capturing what's happening, identifying threads, creating the raw material that marketing can then shape and share. That's where I bring value. I'm doing this type of work for Tempest Theatre, for food security initiatives in the South Okanagan, and for festivals like Taste of Edmonton. It's a role that doesn't have a name, but organizations feel the difference when it exists.

On the education side, I've been building and delivering curriculum for over twenty-five years to both public and private institutions, for learners of all ages. I created Alberta's first government-approved 3D animation program and helped MacEwan University pivot its creative courses to online delivery. I developed and delivered the first micro-credential programs in Alberta and British Columbia, focused on digital marketing and design. At Edmonton Digital Arts College, I helped grow the school from a single program to four over a five-year period. At Okanagan College, I built a network of community partners that secured over a million dollars in funding for programming within my first year.

The work I'm proudest of is The Creative Lab, a peer mentorship community I founded for creatives trying to maintain their artistic practice alongside demanding day jobs and lives. The group comprises previous students and colleagues from around the world. They've built businesses, broken through creative blocks, found ways to bring more creativity into their work, and live better lives in a creative support group.

My classroom style is not traditional. I believe in experiential learning, relationship-based teaching, and meeting people where they are, rather than where a document dictates they should be. I think there are conversations worth having about how we plan and deliver creative education, and I'm looking to share that perspective through speaking and consulting in this new chapter of my life. I believe in the responsibility of storytelling, a conversation I want to bring to more stages.

Outside of photography and education, I'm a certified animal tracker and hiking guide. I spend time in the backcountry, reading the land, paying attention. It might seem disconnected from studio work, but it's not. Both require the same thing: the patience to wait until something reveals itself.

Whether you need someone to capture the story your organization is not telling, a headshot session that's a creative experience, curriculum development and delivery that produces real outcomes, or a speaker who will challenge how your team thinks about storytelling and education, I'm available for that conversation.

Always looking to build my community.