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Sports Photography

My goal was to offer a team photo, individual player portraits, and to cover two sporting events for all of the Science Academies of New York athletic teams. That translated to photographing roughly 20 teams, 40 games, and 300 student athletes throughout each academic year.

Marketing Photography

How do you tell the story of a school? A mission statement helps, but a photograph invites parents directly into the classroom to picture their students in the classrooms, hallways, labs, and gyms. The marketing photographs I took for the Science Academies of New York reinforce the organization’s message across all its marketing materials.

Portrait Photography

Once I had access to professional camera equipment, it was hard to not make images of everything in my life. I started by asking friends if they would like a portrait session of their growing family, and after that first session my love of family and group photography was forever solidified.

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Best Moment

While photographing a girls’ basketball game, a gentlemen sitting in the bleachers pulled me aside. He slid a phone from his pocket, pulled up his homescreen, and excitedly asked, “Did you take this picture? It’s the best photo I’ve ever seen!” It was a photo of his daughter going up for a layup at a recent game. He had taken a screen capture of the image and saved it as his phone background.

Greatest Challenge

Coordinating groups of 20 teenage athletes to pose in a uniform style requires a certain level of mental preparation. I bring my coaches a “playbook” to let them know exactly what we are aiming for, and just keep giving as clear direction as possible.

Unexpected Lesson

Full disclosure, the only class I have ever failed through high school or college was my introduction to Photography class at Syracuse University. I was Valedictorian at Marshfield Senior High School in Coos Bay, Oregon—and despite that, PHO 301 got the better of me. After pushing through my discomfort, and retaking the class, I realized that photography scared the heck out of me. Revisiting it through this job has been an oddly wonderful experience, and despite (or maybe because of) the undercurrent of fear, I love the process.