I am a freelance editorial and travel photographer, currently based in Almaty, Kazakhstan and Madison, Wisconsin. For the past 6 years, I was a staff photographer for the University of Wisconsin. Before that, I lived in Almaty, where I worked as a photojournalist for Associated Press. During my time in Kazakhstan, I photographed and co-authored the guidebook Stranded on the Silk Road. Recently, I've shot for local and national publications from Psychology Today to the Harvard University Press, and for clients including Walgreens, UNICEF, and the Eurasia Foundation.

Through my photographs, I seek to tell human stories that would otherwise go unseen and unheard. I take portraits of people and photos of the beauty I find around me. I take pictures both to record the world as I see it, and to change the world I see. I am equally an artist and an activist, and these two tracks of my life are constantly cross-pollinating.

In addition to working as a photographer, in my life I've been a teacher, a writer and a peripatetic traveler. I've worked as an election observer, an environmentalist and a pre-press color expert. Through it all, I keep taking pictures.

My photography pushes me to examine the world more deeply — to notice the details, the texture, the moods, the light. It pushes me to stay open, focused and flexible, in order to catch the essence of a subject in a fleeting instant. There is something magical about that challenge. And so I make photographs nearly every day. On this website, you'll find photos I've made for clients, for the University of Wisconsin, and for myself. I hope you'll see our world a little differently after looking at my photographs. If so, I've done my job.