I am an Alaska-based author, photojournalist, and carpenter specializing in long-form, immersive storytelling.

My favorite work demands a high tolerance for risk, a willingness to grapple with complex logistics, and the patience to let a narrative unfold. Whether I am hauling gear alongside geophysicists across alpine glaciers, completing grant-funded embeds with elite military rescue squadrons, or excavating forgotten archives, my approach is always process-driven.

My perspective is rooted in the physical realities of Alaska, an environment that indelibly shapes the people who live here. My own trajectory was permanently altered by surviving a fatal 1984 avalanche in the Chugach Range. That experience informed everything that followed—from my years working in the oil industry in the aftermath of the Exxon Valdez, to my life today as a carpenter. I hold a profound respect for manual competence—a shared language that bridges Alaska’s deep ideological divides. When outside assumptions attempt to neatly categorize the North without having endured a single harsh winter here, it merely sparks my creative curiosity. Alaska is a place where political labels matter far less than a neighbor’s willingness to pull your truck out of a ditch.

My life experience grounds my interest in legacy, survival, and especially the aftermath of trauma. My writing and photography follow a braided approach, often weaving scientific data and historical timelines with deeply personal narratives—whether I am investigating a Cold War-era glacier expedition or documenting a master blacksmith resisting the gentrification of a changing city.

I used to be satisfied to point my lens at austere environments. Today, I look at the people standing in them. I don’t just want to show what places looks like; I want to document what it feels like when human endurance and geography become inextricably connected.