I’m a disabled queer photographer working across portrait, Polaroid, and street photography to explore desire, caregiving, bodily autonomy, and visibility. Born in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, I started taking photos in middle school and got serious about portraiture by high school. While earning my BFA in photography at Kendall College of Art and Design, I sustained a spinal cord injury in a gymnastics accident. After a year of recovery, I returned and completed my degree in 2013.

My experience as a gay man and full-time wheelchair user is the foundation of my practice. My work confronts how queer disabled people are erased from dominant conversations around sex, beauty, autonomy, and public space. Whether I’m staging a portrait, capturing a fleeting street scene, or making a raw Polaroid, I use the camera to claim agency and author my own image—on my own terms.

Each format I work in serves a distinct purpose. My portrait work is composed and intentional, sometimes sensual, sometimes political, always personal. My Polaroids are raw and immediate, offering unfiltered windows into moments of intimacy and care. Polaroids hold a unique place in queer history as trophies of survival—private moments made public only on our terms, without middlemen or risk of exposure. These instant, one-of-a-kind images allow me to preserve queer lives and desires in their authentic, imperfect reality.

My street photography documents the everyday experience of moving through a world that often isn’t built for bodies like mine, asserting disabled queer presence in public life. As a wheelchair user, my vantage point is lower—at crotch height. I navigate a landscape of bulges, butts, and dicks. As a gay man, I love this perspective. My images show you what I see: the raw, intimate, often overlooked reality of queer desire and presence in public spaces.

I don’t crop out my wheelchair. I don’t hide my caregivers. I don’t sanitize my sex. These aren’t side notes to my identity—they are the substance of it.

Photography gives me control over how I’m seen. As both subject and author, I shift the gaze from voyeurism to self-determination. Critics have noted how my work reframes care as power, transforms medical equipment into a language of eroticism, and challenges the ableist myth of independence. I’ll take that.

This practice isn’t just about making images—it’s about reshaping visibility. It’s about being seen, fully and unapologetically, as someone who was never supposed to be in the frame. And putting myself there anyway.

I earned my MFA in Photography from Yale in 2020 and received a United States Artists Fellowship in 2022. My work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including in Queer Lens at the J. Paul Getty Museum, and featured in The Cut, Momus, Cultured, and Miami New Times. I’ve lectured at Harvard University and served as faculty at the University of Miami.