Growing up my family owned a video store chain (remember those?), so from an early age I was messing around with a VHS camcorder. I eventually got my own camera while away at college and began casually shooting everything. After school I started working at Threadless.com in 2003 doing whatever they needed me to do. At the same time I was making videos of silly things we did as an early startup and posted them up on a custom website as Youtube didn’t exist back then. The videos caught on so much that creating them turned into my full time position at the company for a while. After 14+ years and and a number of roles with the company, we parted ways and I have been freelancing on my own the past 2.5 years.

It all started when I came acrossKeith Loutit’swork on Vimeo 12 years ago. At that same time I had moved into a condo that had a full unobstructed view of the Chicago skyline (see below). With this constant view I quickly noticed how much the weather and the skies above interacted with the architecture of the city and became enamored with playing with time. I’m going to be really sad if I ever have to move away from it. The main goal I hope to accomplish is to create eye catching work that stops people from scrolling on by.

I love hitting the street with no set plan and seeing where my eyes take me to find new ways to capture people, places or things in a unique way. Whether that be from the lakefront or aboard a Chicago River architecture cruise or from one of the skyscraper observatories 90+ stories up in the air, it all comes down to weather and the city interacting together to capture the movement of the city.