About
My photography career started in a heavy metal mosh pit where I shot the underground music scenes in Vancouver and Toronto starting in 2001.
Over the next ten years I spent much time travelling to abandoned and forgotten parts of North America, from the ghost towns of Atlantic Canada to the post-Katrina ruins of New Orleans to the neglected Inuit communities of the Canadian Arctic. I was drawn in by the bleakness and sadness of these societies, contrasted with the beauty and resilience of their people and natural environments.
In 2014 I moved to Wisconsin, USA where I studied computer science and worked at UW Madison. This was the ideal setting to indulge in my fascination with the American Rust Belt and provide amazing photo opportunities.
Artist Statement
Photography should be informative but also needs to look good. I use pictures to tell stories from the past and ask questions about the future. I want my photos to be uncomfortable, analytical, and beautiful. I use long exposures and pinhole lenses to fudge optics and create a sense of surrealism. My ongoing work, "Abandon", examines collapse in human societies, comparing downfalls of past societies with ongoing problems in the present.
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Solo Exhibitions
- 2018, Midwestern Winters, PhotoMidwest Gallery, 700 Rayovac Dr, Madison WI
- 2009, Abandon: Baffin Island, Lens Factory, 1040 Queen St. W., Toronto ON
- 2008, Abandon, Impressions Art Gallery, 102 Yorkville Ave., Toronto ON
- 2007, Northern Exposures, QSQ Gallery, 246 Queen St. E., Toronto ON
- 2006, Arctic: Black & White, C'est What, 67 Front St. E., Toronto ON
Group Exhibitions
- 2017, Royal Photographic Society International Exhibition 160 (shortlist)
- 2016, SE Center for Photography, The Abandoned Landscape, Greenville SC
- 2016, Wisconsin Union Gallery 1308, WUD 88th Annual Juried Student Art Show, Madison WI
- 2007, Gallery 402, 402 King St. E, Toronto ON
- 2007, Damery Fine Art Gallery, Bala ON
- 2007, Praxis Gallery, 1614 Queen St. W., Toronto ON
Music Record Artwork
- Opeth - Lamentations, Live at Shepherd's Bush Empire (2016)
- Trent Severn - Trillium (2015)
- Ayahuasca - Plato's Dark Horse (2013)
- Halford - Live in Anaheim (2010)
- Demontage - The Principal Extinction (2010)
- Unearth - Alive from the Apocalypse (2008)
- Woods of Ypres - Woods III: Deepest Roots and Darkest Blues (2007)
- Novembers Doom - The Novella Reservoir (2007)
- Burn to Black - Mach 666 (2006)
- Burning the Day - In Fall She Sleeps (2006)
- Wolf - The Black Flame (2006)
- Novembers Doom - The Pale Haunt Departure (2005)
- Hate Eternal - I, Monarch (2005)
- Averse Sefira - Tetragrammatical Astygmata (2005)
- Uphill Battle - Wreck of Nerves (2004)
- Woods of Ypres - Woods II: Pursuit of the Sun & Allure of the Earth (2004)
- Carnal Forge - Destroy Live (2004)
- Nebelhexe - Laguz Within the Lake (2004)
- Zyklon - Aeon (2003)
- Goat Horn - Storming the Gates (2003)
- Destruction - Alive Devastation (2003)
Press & Interviews
- CBC Radio Canada - Interview, Y a pas deux matins pareils - December 2009
- NOW Magazine - Art Story - May 2008
- Parkdale-Liberty Villager - May 2008
- Toronto Star, At the Galleries - April 2008