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 with Chipper Cavendish. Subsequently I studied fine art printing with master printer Brian Young at the ICP. I currently live full time in Reykjavík, Iceland. I am working as a freelance photographer, and I am in the process of starting up a custom printing and processing lab.
Photo by Malte Jantzen