I have been making photographs since 2009.
I spent years photographing constantly, traveling, watching, waiting, before I understood that what I was looking for had a name. I studied at the International Center of Photography in New York, where I learned to articulate what I had already been chasing: the image that stays with you. The one you remember a year later.
My work has taken me from the streets of New York City to Istanbul, Nepal, Egypt, Seoul, Rome, and beyond. I am based in San José, Costa Rica.
What I am after.
In the ocean of ubiquity that photography has become, I am after the image that doesn't drown. The one I will remember years after I've seen it — the one that moves in and never leaves.
I believe beauty is not ornamental. It is structurally necessary to human life — the way warmth is necessary, the way a specific quality of afternoon light can make a street feel like it's worth caring about. I have lived inside cities where beauty was present and inside cities where it has been systematically dismantled in favor of the expedient. I know the difference not philosophically but physically.
But beauty can also deceive. It can make the troubling feel comfortable. A warm December day in New York can feel like a gift when it is actually a warning sign. The Congregation holds both possibilities at once: the beauty that is necessary and the beauty that distracts from what should make us uneasy. I do not resolve the tension. I try to hold it.
Beauty is a language. It can tell the truth or deceive. The distinction lies in what the artist does with it. When a detail that pierces meets uniqueness and that kind of beauty, the photograph becomes more than a record. It becomes something you carry.
The prints.
Every print in the Master Edition is limited to 10 signed copies per size, worldwide, permanently. Each size also includes 1 Artist's Proof, reserved for the artist's archive — 3 APs total across all sizes. Prints come with a Certificate of Authenticity, are printed on archival fine art paper with pigment inks, and include a white border for matting and framing. The listed size refers to the total paper dimensions.
When an edition closes, it closes for good.
Questions? I'd love to hear from you.