About Me
I am a native New Englander and I spent much of my youth in Connecticut or Vermont. I earned my BA from Middlebury College in Vermont, where I majored in Russian and history. I also began my study of Japanese there. After college I won a Fulbright to study Russo-Japanese relations in Vladivostok. Other than a semester in high school, my first forays into photography were in Vladivostok. After I finished there, I moved to Santa Barbara to enter a PhD program to study history. While I enjoyed UCSB, I decided to stop after my masters to pursue photography. I did earn an MA in Russian and Japanese cultural history. Since that time I have focused my sole attention on photography.I decided to tour Europe after I finished graduate school, and it was this trip that introduced me to Iceland. It was love at first sight. In 2006, I spent six weeks studying Icelandic on a University of Minnesota and University of Iceland joint program. I hope to use this knowledge to inform my photography of that amazing country. I have taken classes at the International Center of Photography in New York as well as the Maine Photographic Workshops. My darkroom training began at Specialty Photographic in Santa Barbara, and I have since taken two semesters of fine art printing with master printer Brian Young. I am "exhibited internationally", which is a fancy way of saying that you can buy one of my prints at the Fotografi Gallery in Reykjavik. I am widely collected within my immediate family. I currently split my time between Reykjavik and Brooklyn.