The concept of this series is inspired by personal thoughts and inner voices we may have.

It’s meant to show how our thoughts can bind us to beliefs and ideas that are either positive and hopeful or negative and destructive.

H21 is a series I created to celebrate Halloween season this year (2021). It features unique concepts in video form. I collaborated with @iprodbttrmusic to have original music created for each concept video in this series.

This series was inspired by the feeling of Spring. I wanted to capture the beauty and life that comes from this season. I aimed to capture colors that remind me of Spring: dark green, bright pink and red, as well as browns. The subject’s pose is meant to reflect the peace and renewal that I associate with this time of year.

This shoot was done during golden hour in April of 2021.

Mandy Pursley is an extremely talented seamstress and cosplayer. She has a heart to promote acceptance and normalization of body differences. Her work is beautiful, and it was a pleasure to photograph her.

This series is special because I got to capture a subject who, like the character, is truly beautiful inside and out.

The mood of this shoot is meant to reflect a fairytale world. The goal was to capture costume detail and color. I wanted a contrast between these yellow/golds and the deeper royal red, blues, and purples.

The shoot was done on a very cloudy evening in February of 2021.

Photos from this series have been featured on Cosplay Central, Love What Matters, and News24 in stories related to Mandy Pursley and her powerful cosplays.

Portraits of Christina (my mother).

Taken November of 2020.

This series was something I felt inspired to do around Halloween. I wanted to capture my childhood fears in a series of photos and videos. Two lovely young girls helped me to accomplish this project.

Special thanks to Cayleigh who plays the loveable monster in this series. Thanks to Felicity for being the final girl. They both did an amazing job.

I wanted to work with extreme contrast between light and dark for these photos. The video was meant to capture the confusion and uncertainty that lingers in the dark.

This shoot was done in October of 2020.

This series is inspired by body dysmorphia, and was meant to capture the ridiculous beauty standards of our times.

Everyone focuses in on their imperfections. I wanted to show the discontent with one’s appearance through the makeup used, but I also wanted the photos to be beautiful. This contrast is meant to reflect our own opinion of ourselves versus the reality of who we are.

Several wonderful people made this series possible. I had multiple subjects and individuals helping me with the shoot. Thank you to all those involved.

This shoot was done in October of 2020.

This series was inspired by werewolf history and lore.

We know them as fictional characters and movie tropes, but in reality they were so much more. Real world werewolves were much like witches. They were normal people who, due to superstition and prejudice, were labeled as “devil worshipers”.

Many documented cases of lycanthropy have eerily similar details. Many of the confessions drawn from so called “werewolves” mention making a deal with the devil. These deals usually involved the individual receiving a magical belt. A wolf belt would allow the individual to take on the form of a wolf. Obviously, we know this is impossible, but there was a time where this concept was fairly accepted by the public. In fact, there were werewolf trials very similar to witch trials. Sometimes a trial would include cases of both witchcraft and lycanthropy.

Those convicted of making a deal with the devil often paid with their lives. Many of the punishments were unnecessarily gruesome.

This series’ name comes from the unique lore associated with she-wolves: the female werewolf. Many she-wolves were believed to not experience a full physical transformation. Instead, they would gain the senses and characteristics of a wolf. Those that were able to shape shift completely, were believed to be more in control of their form than their male counterparts. Due to this belief, she-wolves were considered to be even more dangerous than male werewolves.

I wanted to capture the way that death lingers over us throughout our lives. Whether it’s mental illness, disease, or age we are followed by it.

My father and brother helped me film and photograph this series. Thank you to them for helping me express this vision.

My goal was to keep the shoot very plain. I wanted a simple, monotone feeling. The stories, the shadows and lights, are meant to express the illusion of life and the idea that death evades us. It is the unknown that scares us, but the certainty of it that brings us comfort.

For a lot of people, the idea of witches conjures up an image of old women on fling broomsticks. In reality, witches were women and men who were outcasts in society. Cripples, outspoken individuals, women who turned down the advances of men… Normal human beings were executed as witches just because no one liked them, or they could not meet an impossible standard.

For example: one form of testing whether or not someone was a witch was to weigh them down and throw them in a river. If they floated, they were a witch and were to be tortured and executed. If they didn’t float, well that’s just too bad (because water was believed to reject those that were unbaptized and accept those that were reborn).

I was imagining living in a time like this. Where the simplest act of non-conformity could land me in the middle of a witch trial. That is what inspired this series.

Thank you to the amazing women involved with this series. I couldn’t have done it without my sisters.

This series was inspired by the Halloween season. I wanted to do something that captured the loneliness of death. The series is meant to follow a lost soul that wanders the Earth alone, and out of place.

Special thanks to my father for helping me shoot this series, and to my sister for doing my makeup.

The series was taken in October of 2020.

This series was inspired by psychics and astrology. I took the opportunity to learn a bit about tarot readings and some of the beliefs associated with it.

The goal was to display the mystery and beauty of these beliefs.

This series was done in October of 2022.

This series was inspired by Zathura, the game and movie. I grew up watching this movie, and as a teenager I discovered the game. Stumbling upon it at a yard sale felt like finding it in a dusty basement. I felt like it was the beginning of an amazing adventure.

I wanted to capture the light-hearted feeling that this story evoked in me as a child.

Thanks to my sister for helping me out with this.

This series was done in October of 2020.

This series is inspired by a fear of clowns.

I know so many people who fear clowns. I wanted to capture the contrast between fear and color. Clowns are traditionally a positive thing, so why do so many people fear them? I still don’t know, but the exaggerated emotions make them very interesting subjects.

Thanks to my sisters for helping me out as subjects and makeup artists.

This series was done in October of 2020.

Taken on July 4th, 2020.

I wanted to capture the unique shapes of fire.

This series was created to give kids an opportunity to be their favorite heroes.

I grew up with comic books and superheroes. My love for all things comic related has not faded as I’ve become an adult. I wanted to pour into the kids that I know that share this interest.

Here you’ll see Felicity as Spider-man and Captain Marvel, Milo as Spider-man, and Johnny as Iron Man. Thank you to these wonderful kids for helping me out with this series.

The backdrop was made from dismantled comics.

Photos were taken in May of 2020.

This project was for my brother. We designed him some shoes for his basketball season, and decided to film with them.

Taken in May of 2020.

Light and shadows on the coast.

Taken in April of 2020 at Radio Island, NC.

A series working with fire and smoke.

Taken in April of 2020.

A surreal series about imagination and wonder.

Taken in April of 2020.

My nephew loves to drum. I wanted to capture the pure joy you can see when he is going crazy making music.

Taken in April of 2020.

Portraits of my brother.

Taken in April of 2020.

Oh, look! It’s me.

These are some self portraits of me.

Taken in April of 2020.

This series is shot using a projector. I wanted to play with the idea that we project a certain image of ourselves to the world.

Thanks to my sister for letting me photograph her for this series.

These photos were taken in April of 2020.

A self portrait series.

These photos were taken in April of 2020.

This series is inspired by Stranger Things. I chose the following characters for inspiration: Joyce, Mike, Eleven, Max, Billy, and Steve.

Thanks to my sister for helping me do this.

Photos were taken in April of 2020.

A series using projector slides.

Photos taken in April 2020.

I wanted to do a series that used the different colors of lights to create colorful shadows.

This series is sort of an experiment with light.

Photos taken in April of 2020.

This series was inspired by the gap between reality and art/imitation of reality.

Thanks to my sister for helping me with this shoot.

Photos taken in April of 2020.

These are our family Christmas photos from December of 2019.

This is a series of headshots I did for my brother.

Photos taken in August of 2019.