Published!
I was recently published in the October issue of LiveBetter Magazine! Check out my column on the water crisis in Mozambique here! A big thanks to Africa Water is Life for taking me along as photographer and story collector to Mozambique last January and to Jessica Kiefer at Bohlsen PR for working to get us in and to LiveBetter for taking a chance on the...
Read MoreMoments With My Grandparents — Lake Photo ed.
My grandparents house is a special place. Besides my childhood home, no other location holds more precious memories. Of course, it wasn’t the house or the lake which allowed such freedom from worry and showed such tremendous love during my early summers–it was my grandparents. It didn’t matter that their lake wasn’t the biggest or most popular in Indiana, that we learned...
Read MoreDoes Education Kill Creativity?
Creativity, in the midst of long lectures, tedious projects, and sleepless nights spent pouring over illegible notes, takes a solid hit to the teeth during our formal years of higher education. It’s easy to conclude that the education system itself squanders the best of our creative efforts by forcing us into patterns of rote memorization, thereby depleting our appetite for energetic...
Read MoreJuan and Diana Are Married! — Colombian Wedding Photo ed
Quinn and I recently got to go to Medellín, Colombia, for the wedding of Juan and Diana. It was truly a trip of a lifetime and a wedding we will never forget. Medellín is a beautiful city full of beautiful and intriguing people and it was so much fun reuniting with family and friends and being a part of their big day. Congrats Juan and Diana. We love and miss you very...
Read MoreHow Far Would You Walk For Water? — Photo Ed
Young women in countries like Mozambique spend hours, each day, retrieving water. Their walk for water is absolutely necessary for survival. The issue, however, is not only that the water retrieved is miles from home but that it’s highly contaminated with disease causing bacteria which subsequently kills thousands of children, their younger brothers and sisters, each year. The aim is to...
Read MoreThoughts On Turning Twenty Seven & Art
Set in 1940′s Greenwich Village, Edward Hopper’s, Nighthawks is one of my favorite pieces. Nighthawks soothes my mind and straightens my often times tousled thoughts in ways no other painting ever has, as if my own existence is somehow bound to its canvas and bordered within its frame. Hopper said this about his art: Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist,...
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