I started photographing dance when I was 18 — first by accident, then by instinct. The dance department at Hillsborough Community College needed a documentarian, and I happened to show up. For nearly a decade, I worked with dancers across Florida, learning to read movement, anticipate rhythm, and tell the truth in a single frame. These images taught me clarity — of motion, of color, and of composition — and eventually shaped how I document complex systems today.
Auditions
Shot at the Florida Dance Education Organization auditions in West Palm Beach. The room was huge, bright, and chaotic — dancers improvising with no structure, no resets. But inside that noise, moments of real beauty emerged. Fleeting, soft, undesigned — and all the more true for it.
Four Days
Captured during live performances of “Four Days of Dance.” Dance taught me I wasn’t in control — the lighting designers set the color, the dancers shaped the motion, the music carried the rhythm. My job was to watch closely, wait for the form to emerge, and catch it clean. I didn’t control the moment — I just had to watch, listen, and be ready.