I’m artist, adventurer, yogi, Reiki master, student of mother nature, and storyteller.

I grew up on Florida’s Gulf of Mexico coast and wandered out to New Mexico in the late 1980s. I fell in love with the land and dove in - or out, you might say. I lived primitively in the mountains north of Santa Fe and on quiet beaches during a couple sojourns to Hawaii. I joined with the ebb and flow of the natural world and studied eastern spiritual practices and matriarchal and shamanist life. There were some years that no matter what the weather was doing, I was in it – sunshine, rain, warm breeze, thunderstorm, blizzard, dust storm.  I learned more in these years about my self and the world than in all the rest of my life combined. I learned to not only watch, but to listen and to feel.

I practice listening to and feeling the world around me as I make photographs. Photography is a practice of meditation for me, it is also an act of loving, honoring, devoting myself to what I am photographing. I travel the Earth looking and feeling below surfaces, delving into the nature of life and the life of nature.

Predominantly a fine art photographer, my preferred visual story telling medium is black-and-white photography, but I don’t hesitate to create with color or photograph in documentary style if that’s what is needed to tell a story. I am a lover of the craft of the print and create my photographic prints personally using processes based on traditional darkroom techniques and adapted to current technology and digital tools.

May my work enrich your life and world.

Namaste,

Memphis