About

I started learning film photography in 2001 while in high school. It was my first year at a new school in Vancouver. I inherited my moms Canon FTB camera that she had brought everywhere when she was travelling the world. To this day I still have that camera. My photo’s were black and white, contrasting, and experimental.

I am voracious art consumer. For movies, I try to see as many as I could on television and in theatre. My favourite genre’s being science fiction, westerns, and nature documentaries. I love frequenting art galleries, watching Youtube videos, and scrolling through Instagram to look at other's art.

When I was later in my teenage years, my photography fed into my skateboarding, and my skateboarding fed into my photography. I had wanted to submit my photos to skateboarding magazines, long before learning that there were professional skateboard photographers.

As I grew into my senior year of high school, I became more severely disabled and lost my ability to venture far from my house, and my passion for photography was lost. Even skateboarding had ceased its ability to bring me happiness. 

It wasn’t until March 2020 that I was able to get my hands on another film camera, the Canon AE-1, and relight my fire for film photography. In 2019 and early 2020, I was working the graveyard shift in downtown Vancouver. The normally busy city centre was empty, quiet, and perfect for urban landscapes. I got off work at 7am, and took my camera out into the empty streets to capture the beginnings of the COVID pandemic.

In 2021, I published my first zine, Surbated: Lost in the Pacifist Northwest, to document my first year back in photography. I had taken the title from author Cormac McCarthy. I was inspired by McCarthy’s Border Trilogy to attempt to write a western using only black and white photographs.