Born in 1975 and raised in Missouri, I picked up the camera at the age of 14. Easily obsessed with all forms of art and with the help of my father, who shared my passion for creativity, I began to absorb as many aspects of photography as I could. While still in high school I was credited twice internationally by the New York Institute of Photography for photographic achivement, as well as being published in Photoworld. More recently my work was chosen by Kodak to be displayed in Times Square.