Born during the ‘Summer of Love’ in Michigan and raised in the repressive burg of Grand Rapids, I took up photography in my late twenties, decided I liked it so I figured I’d make a career of it. I moved to Chicago in 2000 with my girlfriend Amy, went back to college and got my degree in photography from Columbia College Chicago. After an internship at the Dispatch/Rock Island Argus in the Quad Cities of Illinois and another at the Richmond Times-Dispatch in Virginia, I am now back in Chicago where I freelance for a local publication.