About the
work
“I believe the ocean holds stories most people will never get to see. My job is bringing a few of them back.”
Fifteen years
beneath the surface
I didn’t start as a photographer. I started as someone who couldn’t stop going back underwater. The first dives were all California kelp: green water, cold hands, and the feeling that everything below the surface moved at a different pace than the rest of life.
The camera came later because I kept failing to explain what I was seeing down there. I wanted a way to bring the atmosphere back with me, not just the identification shot. What matters to me is never only the species. It’s the light, the temperature, the current, the silence, and the moment when a place finally starts revealing itself.
Over time, the work became part documentary, part evidence, and part invitation. If I’m doing this right, the photographs don’t just look beautiful. They make you care more about what happens to the places they came from.
I still work that way now. Slow descents. Long dives. Patience over spectacle. The ocean usually gives up the better story if you stop trying to force one.
As Seen In
The water gives
us everything
Over half the oxygen we breathe starts in the ocean. The work I care about most comes from spending enough time in one ecosystem to notice what disappears, what returns, and what looks healthy until you spend a little longer with it.
That is why I don’t share exact sites, why I don’t harass animals for the frame, and why a portion of print sales goes toward marine-protection work. The photographs are the invitation. The protection work is the follow-through.
Where the
frame comes from
The work comes out of repetition more than novelty. Same reefs, same currents, different conditions. That is how the details start showing up.
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Dive reports, behind-the-scenes field notes, and the conservation stories I think are worth your attention.
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