About

Synopsis

I’ve spent a lifetime inside the creative industries — from record labels and MTV to Live Nation and New York Fashion Week. A decade ago I turned my eye toward portrait photography, earning a Master Photographer accreditation from The Portrait Masters and seeing my work published on the covers of leading European fashion magazines. Today, I’m based in Charlotte, North Carolina, and I bring all of it into every session I shoot.

Full Story

I grew up in Atlanta with a camera in my hand and a darkroom in the basement I shared with my brother. Photography was never a hobby — it was simply how I saw the world.

But life took me somewhere interesting first.

Over the following decades, I worked at the intersection of creativity and commerce — with record labels, with MTV, as Senior Vice President of Global Development at Live Nation — the world’s leading live entertainment company — and later as a New York-based media consultant whose work took him to Washington DC and London, where I helped one of Europe’s leading fashion publishers navigate the transition from print to digital. I spent seasons at New York Fashion Week, invited directly by fashion designers to photograph behind-the-scenes and capture the “last looks” before their collections met the world.

Throughout all of it, Charlotte was home — the place I returned to, and ultimately the place I chose.

Ten years ago, I made it official.

I began training seriously in New York City, developing what became my signature approach — an editorial style shaped by the fashion and portrait photography I had spent years observing, studying, and absorbing. I worked with models, actors, and musicians. My images appeared on the covers and inside the pages of leading European fashion and lifestyle magazines. I earned accreditation as a Master Photographer from The Portrait Masters — one of the most respected organizations in portrait photography internationally — under the direct mentorship of its founder, world-renowned photographer Sue Bryce. To date, my individual images have received over 100 awards from The Portrait Masters, and a dozen awards from the International Portrait Photography Association.

I am based in Charlotte, North Carolina — a city I have called home since 1997, and where I now focus my portrait practice.

How I Work

Every session begins before you are ever in front of my camera.

It begins with a conversation — about you, how you see yourself, how you want others to see you, and what you hope to feel when you look at your portraits. I listen more than I direct. My job is not to impose a look, but to understand who you are and create the conditions where that comes through naturally and unmistakably.

The best version of you isn’t always available on demand. Neither is the best light, the perfect setting, or the precise moment when everything aligns. My job is to create those conditions — technically, creatively, and humanly — so that what appears in your portraits isn’t luck. It’s intention.

I can capture you in my studio, in your home, your office, or wherever feels most authentically like your world. The setting, like everything else, is a choice we make together.

I have spent my entire adult life around creative people — musicians, designers, executives, artists — and I have learned that the most compelling images come not from technical perfection, but from genuine human connection. That is what I bring to every session.

A Note on My Work

In recent years I have also begun painting — abstract works that explore many of the same themes I encounter in portraiture: identity, emotion, and presence. I mention it here not to complicate the picture, but because it reflects something true about how I approach everything I create: with curiosity, with intention, and with a genuine desire to make something that didn’t exist before.

Credentials

Master Photographer — Accredited by The Portrait Masters International

Over 100 Image Awards · The Portrait Masters & International Portrait Photographer Association

Cover photographer for more than a dozen international fashion publications

New York Fashion Week · Commissioned photographer

On-location & studio photoshoot in Charlotte, North Carolina · Available worldwide