I am a photographer and time-based artist. My artwork confronts ecological and social change through conceptual landscape photographs and the use of 3D models, aerial drone cinematography, geospatial mapping, and video game engine tools as a narrative form. I earned a law degree in 1996 and worked as an environmental attorney and policy advisor to the Governor of Georgia, and have been a visiting curator at the Breman Museum and adjunct faculty at Emory University, Miami Ad School at Portfolio Center, and the Creative Circus, where I have taught photography and filmmaking with a focus on digital futurism, photographic art history, printmaking, historic darkroom processes, and cinema post-production.
My involvement in Atlanta arts began in 1997 when I worked with the Atlanta City Council to draft legislation to overturn Atlanta’s ordinance banning street artists and musicians from busking in public. Soon after, I assisted Georgia Governor Roy Barnes, former Mayor Maynard Jackson, and future Mayor Shirley Franklin in drafting an anti-sprawl strategy for the Atlanta region incorporating city arts funding, environmental justice, and clean air goals into a regional transportation plan. I have continued this advocacy as an artist and art educator since then.
Affiliations
The Breman Museum, Visiting Curator of Digital Art and Time-Based Media (2023-)
Georgia Coast Atlas, Artist in Residence and Research Co-Principal Investigator (2022-)
Emory University, Geffen and Lewyn Families Southern Jewish Collections Research Fellow, 2023
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Low Residency MFA, completion expected 2024
Cesium Ecosystem Grantee, 2023
Emory Digital Visualization Laboratory, consulting researcher
Emory University Arts and Social Justice Faculty, 2022
Society for Photographic Education, 2021-
Arts Leaders of Metro Atlanta, class of 2020
Decatur Makers non-profit educational makerspace
Threshold Community Program for autistic teenagers. Volunteer artist mentor.
Beacon Hill Black Alliance for Human Rights: 2021 artist mentor for a new civil rights monument created in Decatur, Georgia
Advertising Photographers of America, National Secretary 2003-2004
ACLU of Georgia, 1997: Was lead counsel in the First Amendment lawsuit which overturned the City of Atlanta ordinance preventing street musicians from busking in public.
Roy Barnes for Governor, 1998-1999. Environmental law advisor and debate coordinator for statewide campaign for Georgia Gov. Roy Barnes. Directed environmental policy for Governor-Elect’s transition.
Southern Environmental Law Center/Upper Chattahoochee Riverkeeper legal team. Draftsman of a lawsuit that led to a landmark $1 billion consent decree with the City of Atlanta separating stormwater from sewage overflow into the Chattahoochee River.
Recent Exhibitions
The Breman Museum, 2024 (commission in progress)
The Poor Farm Experiment (Manawa, WI) 2023
Hambidge Art Auction, 2019
Jenny Minkewicz Gallery, 2020
Roswell In Print public art exhibition, 2020
Wolf Design Gallery, solo show, Atlanta GA, 2020