These are the artists that move me. These are the artists whose work I’ve been privileged enough to document, from whom I draw inspiration, and whose energies I gravitate toward.
Without really realizing it, I’ve made a career out of admiring and documenting fellow artists - on stage, online, in class, and everywhere. From an arms length, there’s almost always been a component of my work that has been directed to celebrate others.
This only really hit me a couple of years ago. A student reached out to ask permission to use images from a play they’d worked on. He told me that he wanted to enter my images into competition for his design work on the show. I gave my blessing, and within a week or two I heard that he’d won. A day later he wrote to me: “You raise it all up and provide us students with an opportunity to have our work feel professional and real,. Thanks so much for making what I do look this good.”
And that’s when it all really sunk in. That’s just what I do, my man. I’m out here documenting artists at all stages of their careers. Very little of my work is rooted in ego - something that I ironically take a lot of pride in - and its become clear that that is largely the role I’ve carved out for myself.
But on the backend of it, I’m still an artist in my own right, and have been creating work with just as much dedication. I don’t yearn to ‘feed the ego’ right now at all. In fact, I have found a whole new way of capturing, documenting, and co-creating.
These are my selections from this work. Click the link below to see the really big gallery!
