“Kill Your Darlings” is an experimental photo narrative about my life as a creative. As a highly ambitious artist with limited resources, my work is often sidelined by technical limitations. As much as I’d like to, I can’t do every project on my own, and collaboration on massive, high-concept projects like the ones I pride myself on requires significant commitment from collaborators that is difficult to find or expect, even on an art campus. This was a zero-budget, one-person photoshoot. Each shot was achieved by placing a camera on a tripod and moving to position before the shutter clicked. The tripod was kept still to allow for seamless compositing of multiple shots. The final product is both visually stunning and haunting.

“Urban Grunge” was my first dive into the art of landscape photography. It was an experiment in finding points of interest among the mundane and generally unappealing landscapes of the cities and towns near my campus. My concept for this series was to photograph light in the darkness, going out past midnight, searching for areas that were still illuminated for my camera to capture. There’s something fascinating about the small pockets of civilization where we keep the lights on after the world goes to sleep. The chill in the air, the isolation, the uncharacteristic quiet—I find it all equally cozy and unnerving in these places.

“Shadows of Horror” is a short photo narrative designed to immerse the viewer in a single horrific moment in time. It was my first truly experimental photography project, substituting a physical subject with cleverly placed shadows to tell my story. The photo set won multiple awards for its creativity and polished presentation.