I have always had ideas but nowhere to put them. Random flashes of scenes, frozen and clear, but locked up tight in my head. Over the years, writing, painting, and speaking about these ideas didn’t amount to anything. It wasn’t until I picked up a camera that I could finally bring these ideas to life. Street photography was fun. Abstract photography was a daze. But it was portrait work that ignited my passion.
Based in Northern Colorado, I have spent the past 1.5 years pouring out as many of my ideas as I could. The wonderful, eccentric, and wild people I have been fortunate to meet through this journey have made each shoot memorable for me, as well as for them. Each time I pair with one of these fantastic people, an idea is completed, only to be replaced by a new one - a wilder idea, waiting for the right person to bring it to life. I want to talk to you, to share my ideas with yours, to create something that is as beautiful of a mess as we can possibly make. Cleanliness is overrated.
The notion of “mess is better” is an odd one, but a notion that is applied to each shoot. We spend our days prim and proper, playing parts that we really do not want to. The loyal employee, the quiet offspring, or the doting partner. Sometimes we want to let it go, open ourselves up, and show who we are inside. Our dreams and wants and fears are all messy. It’s time to embrace the mess, to revel rather than run.