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Born and raised in suburban Southern California, I had always dreamed of a life more metropolitan. Amongst the monotonous rows of cookie cutter homes sprouting up around me in Orange County, I yearned for visual stimulation. I found it first photographing the forgotten buildings around skid row in downtown
Los Angeles. From there, my travels have taken me to New York, Paris, London, Istanbul, Rome, Florence, Venice, and to the vivid colors
of Miami. It is in these vibrant cities that I have captured the beautiful
detail of the statues, fountains, and buildings that I so longed for growing up.
In 2000, I began showing my work in restaurants, bookstores, and coffee
shops
in Laguna Beach, Long Beach, and Solana Beach. 2003 was my first summer
exhibiting at the Sawdust Art Festival & Festival of the Arts.
In the summer of
2002, I opened my own fine art photography gallery in
Laguna Beach. After 3
years, I closed my gallery to focus on portraiture and fashion
photography. I
currently work with Coast and Preferred Destinations Magazines as their
lead
photographer. Other current clients include .The OC Register, Orange Coast
Magazine, Orange County Performing Arts Center, Laguna College
of Art & Design,
NEXT, and OC Metro.
I have donated my work for the silent auction for the “SPLASH”
and “World’s Fair” 1, 2 & 3
for ASF of Orange County, “Art for AIDS” 2 & 3 benefiting
the Laguna Art Museum
and ASF, "One in Eight" benefiting the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation,
HRC, ECCO, The
Center of OC, and immediately after 9/11, I helped raise over
$3,000 for the American Red Cross by donating all
sales of my images of the
World Trade Center.
Collectors of my work have included Academy Award winner Whoopi Goldberg,
comedian Carol Leifer and television producer Tom Leonardis
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