I am a photographer and nurse practitioner with a background in molecular biology. I am fascinated with objects up close as parts of a whole and I am interested in their slow process of aging and decay.
I grew up in northeast Ohio, in a small city, and came to love the rust-belt aesthetics of deteriorating industry. As a child, I spent lots of time outdoors, playing in parks or camping with my family, and I was struck by how quickly nature would take back those things we abandon.
At the College of Wooster, I studied molecular biology, and, for the first time, discovered photography as a way to examine the intricate and intimate parts of things - like the parts of a cell.
Now I live in Chicago, with my husband, Matt, and daughter, Satchel. I work as a Nurse Practitioner, and when I examine the broken parts of a person, I never forget that they are one part of a vital whole.