About

I'm a photographer and artist from the Bay Area. I've always cared more about how a medium works than about its rules, and I've followed that through cameras, scanners, video and now software.

It started with the internet. At eleven I was jailbreaking iPods. At twelve I was hosting my own Clash of Clans server so I could rehearse clan war attacks without spending real troops. I never got the free gems I was chasing. I got an education in how games, servers and networks actually work, which turned out to be worth more.

Then I went outside. Rooftops, abandoned buildings, a camera. That became street photography, then a photography and imaging degree at NYU, then two years running Studio Tava, my studio in Brooklyn. After a stretch in LA I came back to the Bay. Now I lead creative and production at Slugline, where the projects run longer and lean toward video. Photography is Black Ops multiplayer. Filmmaking is Zombies. Different pace, different characters on set.

My photography is functional on purpose: clean light, a clear subject, an image that does its job. My art is the opposite. The software is where the two meet, and it's mostly experiments, though the agent tools are starting to do real work.

I also like cars: fast ones, slow ones, weird ones, mostly 80s and 90s European. I have a ’95 Mercedes W124 Cabriolet. Also music, the occasional DJ set, physics, psychology, and nutrition.