In college I combined journalism, art and anthropology classes to create my degree in Documentary Photography. Then I worked at a small paper saving money to move to Budapest, Hungary. In Budapest, I worked in the Balkans for American magazines, newspapers and NGOs.

In the year 2000, I retuned to the U.S and worked with CITY 2000, a year-long project documenting Chicago. For the next eight years I shot magazine assignments, commercial commissions and began a project about at risk kids on Chicago’s Southside.

I met a priest in the Back of the Yards neighborhood and was drawn to the school he founded, Second Chance. Over the next four years I documented a class as they wrestled with the delayed benefits of education versus the instant gratification of life on the street. This project was awarded