I don't separate the parts of my life.
Filmmaking, photography, training, cooking, travel, and reflection may look like different pursuits. To me, they are all ways of paying attention.
Each one asks something different of me, but the underlying practice is the same: show up with intention, stay curious, embrace the work, and keep becoming.
I still remember the moment I fell in love with the moving image.
I was eight years old, and up until that point, I wanted to be a paleontologist.
Then I saw Jurassic Park.
Something changed. I became fascinated not just by what I was seeing on the screen, but by the idea that people had created it. I knew I wanted to make images and put them on a screen too.
That curiosity eventually led me to film school in 2003. I learned production first, then began teaching myself more about cameras, light, and the technical side of making an image. It's funny. I still wouldn't call myself a cinematographer. But I know how to make a good image.
Over the years, that love of filmmaking became part of something much bigger.
I started turning the camera toward my own life, documenting my transformation and the process of trying to become the best version of myself. Along the way, cooking became a passion. Training became part of the story. Photography changed the way I noticed things. And the more I lived, the more interested I became in the seemingly ordinary moments happening around me.
I love living life. And I love finding the extraordinary in the ordinary.