AboutI am a photographer and visual artist based in Sudbury, Ontario. My artistic practice is rooted in using lens-based media to offer deeply personal encounters with large-scale social, cultural & historical themes. I also work as a freelance photographer and am available for private and corporate commissions including portraits and event documentation. My first formal photography studies were with Susan McEachern at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in 1994. After this I pursued a self-directed practice while working as a producer and manager in contemporary theatre and music for over a decade. I had the good fortune to be involved in many fascinating projects with international creators such as Philip Glass, R. Murray Schafer, Jeanne Lamon and Christos Hatzis. My work has been exhibited in numerous group exhibitions including the 2007 Grand Design Festival in Toronto, and is held by the City of Toronto Archives and in private collections in Canada, the US and the UK. In 2011 I was recognized as a National Winner in Documentary Photography by the Canadian Association of Professional Image Creators’ Rodeo competition. Between my career in the performing arts and my return to the study of photography I spent five highly-successful years as a manager in the Ontario Public Service working on various executive development and organizational change initiatives at the highest levels of government. In 2009 I returned to university full-time to finish what I started back in 1994 and to bring my experiences in the intervening years to bear on photography and contemporary art, my first passions. I received my Bachelor of Fine Arts in photography from Ryerson University in 2014. |