ARTIST STATEMENT

I spent the first 7 years of my life growing up in rural Canada in an existential crisis, aware that I was not like other people.  I was 6 years old and already planning my get-a-way. Walking 2 miles to school and two miles home, 5 days a week in 35 below zero, I wondered how far I would get if I made a run for it, and then somewhere around my 12th birthday I had the revelation that no one was like anyone. That epiphany got me through a few more years there.

My father gave me a camera when I was 15 and I took to it straight away. I started taking pictures then and have never stopped really. I moved to New York City to study painting and photography and started shooting the streets of NYC long before I knew what a Street Photographer even was.

I am sometimes surprised at who follows my work. It cuts a wide swath, and doesn’t seem to favor a financial bracket, a gender or an age group. In those ways I feel my work succeeds. 

History decides on our legacies, not us, but I hope when I die, my work makes some kind of sense - that it documents a certain place and cultural time, and also tells my story.