About Me
I’m an Emmy Award winning Director of Photography with credits that have spanned from capturing the horrors of the surreal in fiction features to filming real-life heroes and monsters in my documentary work. No matter the project, I bring the precision and thoughtfulness of fiction cinematography to my documentary work, and the efficiency, naturalism and problem solving techniques of documentary shooting to my fiction work. I’m comfortable in run-and-gun verite situations, highly stylized fiction setups, and everything in between.
I also work as a colorist on everything from music videos to feature documentaries. I bring my background as a cinematographer to the color suite — both in understanding how light, shadow, and color affect an image, and in respecting the original intent of the director and cinematographer. Likewise, my deep knowledge of the color grading process informs my cinematography in that I intimately understand the artistic and technical details of image creation from initial look design through final delivery.
My credits include: Uncle Peckerhead (Panic Fest, Cinequest, Florida Film Festival); It Cuts Deep (Salem Horror Fest, Brooklyn Horror, Grimmfest); Maggie Black (JDIFF, Flyway); Good Ol Girl (SXSW, Virginia, Seattle International); While I Breathe, I Hope (Southeast Emmy winner, New Orleans Film Festival, Hot Springs, DocNYC); Grandpa Was An Emperor (DocNYC, Doclands), and my directorial debut, Train Keeps A Rolling. Recent television work includes Axios on HBO, History's 9/11: The Legacy, ABC’s The Con and multiple episodes of American Experience on PBS.
I got my start making short films with my friends in my high school's Imaging Lab, and I try to maintain the spirit of those early collaborations in my everyday work. There are very few occupations that allow you to choose the people you work with, and I pride myself on being an excellent teammate that people want to work with time and time again.
Selected CREDITS
Non-fiction Credits
Join Or Die (feature documentary) - cinematographer
Official selection: SXSW, Cleveland International Film Festival
Axios (HBO docuseries) - cinematographer
Winner: News and Documentary Emmy for Outstanding Edited Interview
The Con (ABC, Season 2, episodes 2 & 3) - director of photography
9/11: The Legacy (History Channel documentary) - director of photography
Meltdown in Dixie (short documentary) - cinematographer / colorist
Winner: Best Short, Big Sky Documentary Film Festival | Winner: Best Documentary Short, Ashland Independent Film Festival
American Experience (TV Series documentary)
- The Lie Detector - cinematographer
- Flood in the Desert - cinematographer
- Sealab - director of photography
- Custer's Last Stand - additional cinematographer
Seduced: Inside the NXIVM Cult (Starz docuseries) - additional cinematography
While I Breathe, I Hope (2018 feature documentary) - director of photography, colorist
Official Selection: New Orleans Film Festival | Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival | Doc NYC
Grandpa Was An Emperor (feature documentary, festival circuit) - cinematographer
Official Selection: DocNYC
Good Ol Girl (2020 feature documentary, festival circuit) - producer / director of photography / colorist
Official Selection: SXSW, Virginia Film Festival, Seattle International Film Festival
Train Keeps a Rolling (feature documentary) - producer / director / director of photography
Song for Our People (feature documentary) - director of photography
Lion of Zion (feature documentary, in production) - director of photography
Tell Me Why (feature documentary, in production) - director of photography
Farmers for America (2018, feature documentary) - cinematographer
Retro Report (NYTimes Web Series)
- Runaway Plane - director of photography
- What Happened to Willy? - camera operator
They Might Be Giants (feature documentary) - director of photography
Fiction Credits
Uncle Peckerhead (fiction feature) - co-director of photography with Michael Sutter
It Cuts Deep (fiction feature) - director of photography
Maggie Black (fiction feature) - director of photography
An Interloper’s Kiss (fiction short) - director of photography / colorist
The Music Lesson ( fiction short) - co-director / director of photography
Holiday Fear (fiction short) - director of photography
Fluffernutter (fiction short) - co-director / director of photography
I Am Your Friend ( fiction short) - director of photography / colorist
Break (fiction short) - director of photography / colorist
Stitched (fiction short) - director of photography
Into the Woods (fiction short) - director of photography
Pepper and the Salt Sea (fiction short) - director of photography
Former Things ( fiction short) - director of photography
The Ramens (fiction short) - producer / director of photography / colorist
The Perfect Week (web series) director of photography / editor / colorist
A Good Fish (fiction short) - director of photography
Mutt (fiction short) - director of photography
Worlds We Created (fiction short) - director of photography / colorist
Sinkhole (fiction short) - director of photography / colorist
