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About the artist

I photograph buildings until they stop being buildings.

Based in New York, I've spent nearly two decades training my eye on the built world — not to document it, but to abstract it. My work sits somewhere between architectural photography, graphic design, and color field painting: facades become canvases, shadows become geometry, and structures designed by the world's most ambitious architects reveal something quieter and more elemental than their reputations suggest.

My subjects span continents — Le Corbusier's Berlin, Ricardo Bofill's Costa Blanca, the medinas of Marrakech, the boulevards of Buenos Aires, the Brutalist riverbanks of London — but the instinct behind each image is the same: find the frame where architecture becomes abstraction.

Architecture was my first visual language. I studied it at Cornell University, interned at firms back home, and spent a summer in Tokyo working for Sou Fujimoto — one of the most celebrated Japanese architects of his generation. I never became a practicing architect. Instead I moved into graphic design, then art direction, then spent the last nine years as a product manager in software. But the love never left. What photography gives me is a way back in — a reason to stand in front of extraordinary buildings and look at them the way I was trained to: as compositions of form, light, and intention. Photography just gave the obsession somewhere to go.

My style lives or dies by the sun. Every shot depends on the precise intersection of a building's form, the angle of approach, and the position of the sun — and that combination only exists for minutes at a time, if it exists at all. I plan around solar charts, track when light will hit a specific facade, and travel with the patience of someone who knows the shot might not come. The Barbican is the best example: I visited London three times before I got what I was looking for, sitting in the courtyards watching clouds, waiting for the light to move across the concrete the way I knew it could. Cities like London — grey, unpredictable — make it harder. They also make it more honest. I don't manufacture shadows. The waiting is what lets the craft do its work.

About my prints

  • Digital prints

  • Printed on Epson Ultra Light Premium Luster Photo Paper which is somewhere between gloss and matte, for an extremely saturated look and maximum color coverage.

  • Finished with a glossy finish to help with fingerprint resistance.

  • Orders are printed on demand and shipped directly to you.