About Me

In the summer of 1994, each day from about 8:30 in the morning to 3:00 in the afternoon, I babysat for the brattiest, most entitled, and quite frankly, the absolute SHITTIEST kid in town.  But through the tears and the prolonged battle of wills that each day presented, I persisted because I had my eye on the prize -- each hour with that brat was another $5 to put into the pot towards my very own camera.

Now, I had photographed before.  No person, pet, or sprouting springtime flower could avoid the snap of my Polaroid Instant, for sure, but this was no teeny-bopper trend I had fallen into.  I was ready to be taken seriously and I wanted serious equipment.

Poetry in People probably truly began in the Fall of that year, so many decades ago now.  With that manual load, manual advance, manual EVERYTHING, I learned ABOUT photography as much as I learned HOW to photograph.  From the perch of my second story bedroom window, I practiced with my new camera and photographed the passersby below.

(One such O.G. of PiP pictured here below.)

And throughout the years, I have dabbled with different subject matters and styles -- from macro to portraiture -- but I have always come back to people in their moments. As a tried-and-true introvert who prefers to stay behind the camera than ever be in front of it, these moments allow me a very intimate connection with people and it has taught me to see people.

As Dorothy "Dodie" Smith once said, "I like seeing people when they can't see me."