I'm a recovering CEO turned award-winning, internationally exhibited and published documentary photojournalist and fine art photographer. After spending most of my adult life in white collar roles, I’ve come to learn that my collar is actually quite blue. Though I projected the very image of success as a Harvard Business School-trained CEO building software companies for many years, I was far from happy.
Photography saved my soul.
I pride myself on being a visual storyteller, and I’m most content embracing my blue collar, navigating high-risk conflict zones, and capturing images that tell the stories everyone should know. I prefer a photojournalistic aesthetic, and much of my work is focused on shining a light on the darkness of social inequality around the world.
I've been fortunate enough to have my photos shown in Leica Fotografie International as Leica Master Shots, distributed and sold by Getty Images, featured internationally in photography and fine art publications such as ShotKit.com and The Photo Review Journal of Fine Art Photography, exhibited in galleries around the world, and featured in the Smithsonian Magazine. I am also happy to be a 2023 recipient of a postgraduate bursary equipment grant by the Royal Photographic Society and MPB.com to continue my project titled Legado, a visual exploration of my Spanish-Mexican heritage as a new father.
I've completed studies in Photojournalism with the New York Institute of Photography, Commercial & Fine Art Photography with SPEOS Photography School in Paris, France, am a member of the International Association of Press Photographers, am an Accredited Photographer with The Association of Photographers, and I am currently studying for my Master of Arts degree in Photography with Falmouth University in the UK (Trafalgar Cohort, graduate May 2024), ranked number 1 arts university in the UK.
Though I didn't seek out to become a professional photographer, I wouldn't change a thing. Photography feeds my soul, and has taken me around the world, meeting and photographing the beautiful, strange and interesting people that inhabit it, and then telling their stories.
If there’s one thing I've learned as a photographer documenting global social inequality of the human condition, it’s that this world needs only one thing… more love.
It is my goal to inspire that love.
My life's been filled with adventures and experiences that I'm sure will send me to hell on a full scholarship. But for now... this is as close as it gets to Heaven.
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EXHIBITIONS / AWARDS /
RECOGNITION /
Royal Photographic Society
(in partnership with MPB.com)
Postgraduate bursary equipment grant prizewinner as a shortlisted applicant to continue my project titled Legado, a visual exploration of my Spanish-Mexican heritage and my unique cultural expectations as a new father who battled infertility and achieved parenthood through science.
Portfolio Reviewer - CAPIC 2023
Invited to be a professional portfolio reviewer with the Canadian Association of Professional Image Creators for their annual fine art photography exhibition at the Todmorden Papermill Gallery.
PHOTOJOURNALISMS - THE BOOK
My first published book of my journal articles & essays as a recovering CEO turned freelance photojournalist.
Solo Exhibition - The Rainier Club (Jan - March), Seattle, WA
(r)EVOLUTION - A visual journey to democracy through conflict.
Solo Exhibition & Featured Speaker - Columbia Tower Club Seattle.
Going From Downtown To Downrange
My journey from CEO to Conflict Photographer.
Keynote Speaker - NAMMBA Annual Meeting, Lumen Field
Let Your Challenge Become Your Courage - Life Lessons From A Conflict Photographer.
Represented Artist - Decorus Art Prints, Framing, Gallery
Washington & Florida
Featured Artist & Exhibition - Frequency
Freemont, WA.
Featured Artist & Exhibition - Innervisions
University District, Seattle, WA.
Featured Artist & Exhibition - Seattle Records
Seattle, WA.
Smithsonian Magazine - The American Experience
19th Annual Photo Contest - Top 10 Finalist Winner
(beating out over 40,000 global entries).
Solo Exhibition & Featured Speaker - Rotary Club Seattle.
My journey from CEO to Conflict Photographer,
going from downtown to downrange.
Solo Exhibition & Featured Speaker - Alderwood Terrace Rotary Club.
My journey from CEO to Conflict Photographer.
Solo Exhibition & Featured Speaker - Cornish College of The Arts, Seattle.
My journey from CEO to Conflict Photographer.
Speaker and Lecturer
Category 6 Speaker's Bureau - Book Me
Group Exhibition - Glasgow, England, United Kingdom
IM/MATERIAL WORLDS Exhibition - Landings 22.
Solo Exhibition - Seattle, WA - Conflict Photography (Sold out).
Solo Exhibition - SODO, Seattle, WA - Conflict Photography (Sold out)
2021
Leica Fotografie International (LFI) - Leica Master Shot - Leica Q Gallery.
The Photo Review - Featured photographer.
ShotKit.com - Featured Photojournalist.
Solo Exhibition - Seattle, WA - Conflict Photography (Sold out).
2020
Leica Fotografie International (LFI) - Leica Master Shot - Street Gallery.
Solo Exhibition - Seattle, WA - Landscape Photography (Sold out).
2019
Group Exhibition - Photographic Center Northwest (PCNW).
I was personally sponsored by the Leica Store Bellevue.
Solo Exhibition - Seattle, WA - Street Photography (Sold out).
Winner - 2019 Greenlight Insights Innovation Award.
Immersive photogrammetry in spatial computing.
2018
Group Exhibition - Photographic Center Northwest (PCNW).
I was personally sponsored by the Leica Store Bellevue.
Leica Fotografie International (LFI) - Leica Master Shot - Portrait Gallery.
Leica Fotografie International (LFI) - Leica Master Shot - Landscape Gallery.
Solo Exhibition - Seattle, WA - Street Photography (Sold out).
2017
Group Exhibition - Photographic Center Northwest (PCNW).
I was personally sponsored by the Leica Store Bellevue.
CREDENTIALS
2023
Falmouth University, United Kingdom
Master of Arts Degree in Photography
Trafalgar Cohort - Graduate May 2024
(Ranked No. 1 Arts University in the UK)
2022
SPEOS Photography School in Paris, France
Commercial + Fine Art Photography
(Ranked a Top 5 Photography School in the world)
2022
The Association of Photographers
Accredited Photographer (Member ID: 14482)
2021
Getty Images
Stock Photographer (Contributor ID: 691210)
2020
New York Institute of Photography
Photojournalism (Credential ID: DL1800013)
2019
International Association of Press Photographers
Photojournalist (Member ID: US/8-l-39623)
2018
Harvard Business School
Mergers and Acquisitions, Strategy, Execution, and
Post-Merger Management
2016
U.S. Department of Defense Think Tank
(DoD reference = IDIQ: ID0418014)
Actively serve on the Human Dimensions Support Services Think Tank advising the U.S. Government (civilian, contractor, military) on forward-looking capabilities and active task orders of the elite warfighter, first responders, and tactical athletes.
2015
Rutgers Business School
Executive Education Mini-MBA in Social Media Marketing
2014
American Military University
Undergraduate in Counterintelligence
