I am a photographer and multimedia producer based in the midwest who embraces the evolution of media and wants to help define the future of visual journalism. As director of photography for the Lawrence Journal-World, I direct a team of photographers and visual journalists responsible for all the photographic content for “the newspaper of the future” (as described by The New York Times, 2005). In 2007, I spearheaded a multimedia project which won the Associate Press Managing Editors Award for Online Convergence. Previously, I worked as a freelance photographer and multimedia producer for nonprofit organizations in New York City and taught Bronx youth how to make multimedia for the internet.

I graduated with a journalism degree from Kansas University in the winter of 2002. After graduation, I loaded into a 1986 Chevrolet cargo van and drove to Chiapas, Mexico where I lived and worked with a Zapatista community deep in the Lacandon Jungle.

My client list includes National Geographic Traveler, The New York Times, SLAM Magazine and Merge Records. Building things for Wordpress, a rapidly growing online publishing platform, has also occupied much of my mental real estate recently. Check out what I’ve been up to at www.graphpaperpress.com.