ABOUT

My work lives at the intersection of science, photography, and storytelling. I’m drawn to predators and human coexistence dynamics, to the relationships, conflicts, and the complexity of sharing a landscape with wildlife and how that’s changing in a rapidly expanding human world. I’m drawn to islands under pressure, to invasive species, food systems, and what they reveal about fragility, resilience, restoration, and culture. And I’m drawn to the communities and personal stories at the intersection of these dynamics, the ones that require time in the field, trust, and patience to relate.

My love for wildlife, open spaces, wild places, and the stories that live inside them has taken me from the coastline of Maine where I grew up, to the savannas of South Africa, across the Hawaiian Islands, to the tundra of Alaska, and more.

Years of sitting at a desk as a paralegal, far from nature and everything that made me feel alive, eventually became impossible to ignore. Taking a risk to return to school at 35 was one that turned out to be the most defining decision I’ve ever made. I earned a B.S. in Natural Resources and Environmental Management with a concentration in Wildlife Conservation from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Since then I’ve combined the things I love most: field research, photography, and writing.

I believe that images and stories do something science alone cannot. When we see the intricacies of a place, a species, a relationship, we feel closer to it, more responsible for it. Photography and storytelling create that bridge between data and emotion, between the field and the people who may never set foot there, between what is happening in the natural world and what we are willing to do about it.

I’ve been photographing since 2017, when a visit to Tanzania inspired me to pursue these passions seriously. Since then the science, writing, and fieldwork have all grown together into the work I do now. I’m available for editorial assignments, field projects, and nonprofit and brand collaborations — if you have a story, I want to help tell it.

My photography and writing have been featured in ʻElepaio Journal, Pest Management Science, Hawaiʻi Audubon Society, Transfrontier Africa and the Black Mambas Anti-Poaching Unit, the Honolulu Zoo, Photographers Without Borders, and the Reclaim Power Mentorship Program. I am a Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholar and National Science Foundation Scholarship recipient.

I am currently developing work that pushes into more personal and experimental territory alongside my ongoing field and documentary practice.