It all started when…

Since my early years working as a photojournalist, I’ve believed in the storytelling power of photography. My images connect as well as communicate. I’m all about fostering an authentic connection: between me and my subject, and between the viewer and the image.

Supporting my clients and their brands while telling unique visual stories of diverse bodies, ethnicities, genders and ages, in beautiful settings is the work I’m honored to do. I specialize in creating original and eye-catching fashion lifestyle imagery – the kinds of images that make you pause for a moment and appreciate. With a deep knowledge and connection to the wool industry, knitting and the fiber arts, I photograph people and products all the way from sheep farms to dye studios to fashion models in knits.

It all started with a BA in Photojournalism from the University of Minnesota. I spent my 20’s as a stringer for The New York Times, and shot for magazines from Smithsonian to USA Weekend to Forbes to TV Guide and Yankee. I thrived on the variety of topics, the challenges of location lighting and sharing in the lives of the people I’d meet. Assignments took me from operating rooms to deep sea fishing vessels, to elite science labs to drug dens, and even to the White House. No assignment was too quirky or sketchy. (I will always win at Two Truths and a Lie… Try me some time!) Within the last decade, I transitioned into photographing commercial work and advocacy projects for non-profits and institutions. During this time, my lifelong passion for making things by hand and knitting kept me grounded and inspired. After co-authoring and photographing the coffee table books Shear Spirit and Craft Activism, both for Penguin Random House, my commercial photography career and passion for handmade became permanently entwined and my brand came together full circle.

When I’m not shooting client work, you can find me at my home base in a tiny Connecticut beach town, hanging out with my family or going for a swim. My resources for locations and models are very well established and always growing. A solid network of dependable collaborators enables me to pull a talented crew and shoot together for clients all over the country.

My dream photo shoot? Fashion modeled by the Weeki Watchee Mermaids. (It could happen, right?)

Select clients include:

Aunt Cookie
Berroco
Child Health Development Institute
Connecticut Health Foundation
Hudson Valley Textile Project
Madeline Tosh
Modern Daily Knitting
NEA
Penguin Random House
Raytheon Technologies
Stackpole Publishing
The New York Times
Tufts University
U.S. Dept. of Education
Vogue Knitting
Yale University
Zen Yarn Garden