Incorporating the unique approach using self-portraiture, still-life and landscape photography, he forms an environment around familiar yet personal emotions. He has been exhibited and published nationally and internationally. Most recently, he was chosen as one of Time Magazine’s “51 Instagram Photographers To Follow” for 2016. In 2015 he was chosen as “One Of Portland’s Five Artists To Watch” by the Portland Monthly. He was awarded as a Flash Forward Emerging Photographer by the Magenta Foundation in 2013 and was chosen to attend Alec Soth’s Camp For Socially Awkward Storytellers in the same year. His first publication, Between Here And There, was awarded “Best Books Of 2010” by Photo-Eye Magazine. He holds a BFA in media arts from the University of Texas – Arlington (’03) and an MFA in visual studies from Pacific Northwest College of Art (’10).