Pittsburgh’s Funnest Photographer

“OMG I’ve been a photographer for years and I love taking photos”

– every photographer bio.

I want my work to be meaningful, purposeful and help others succeed. God gave me a special talent and I want to share it with everyone I can.

My story starts in Cleveland, then South Wales, then back to 5 different cities in Ohio before ending up in Pittsburgh in 2018. There’s a creative gene that runs in our family with my grandfather being an avid hobbyist photographer and uncle being an accordionist. So of course I followed suit and played piano for many years throughout high school.

I started thinking about photography rather than pictures in college where I used to putter around the darkroom listening to Godspeed! You Black Emperor. I was one class short of a minor due to a scheduling conflict! But photography always remained a side hobby for me until I came to Pittsburgh. Photographing for my local church, I realized the impact of capturing one single moment in time from one single angle and perspective out of an infinite number of possibilities.

November 2022. After years of searching, I was finally offered the blue pill I always coveted. My career was about to take off. But in the background, I had been refining my photography skills – I couldn’t see what was in my future, but my friends did. So I took the red pill and started building a photography business.

Fast forward to January 2024 and I am now one of Peter Hurley’s Headshot Crew Associate Photographers – one of only 150 Associates worldwide. The Associate level is the highest certification one can receive as a headshot photographer.

I absolutely love my calling as a photographer and am so thankful that I get to do this for a living.