Biography

I have been working in documentary and video art since the early aughts. In 2006, I released my first long-form work, LA CURACIÓN, about the lyrical and political dimensions of health and healing, set in the Northern Andes. For the next decade or so I dedicated myself to collaborative experiments in lens based media, multi-channel video installation, 3D scanning and LIDAR, and various forms of analog and digital image manipulation. As a cinematographer, my work was shown at The Cannes Film Festival, South by Southwest, and The Whitney Biennial. I co-founded a production company in Chicago called “Mass Ornament Films”, which premiered the film THEY by Anahita Ghazvinizadeh at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival. In 2018, I was selected as an Independent Film Projects documentary fellow, and have resided at the Alice Kaplan Institute at NU, the Institute for Advanced Study at the Central European University in Hungary, and the Wexner Center for the Arts. That year I was also named one of Filmmaker Magazine’s “25 New Faces” of independent cinema. Shortly thereafter, I opened “Formidable Entities” with Hadley Austin to emphasize artistic nonfiction work. In 2020, my first feature, A MACHINE TO LIVE IN (about utopian architecture in Brazil), premiered just as COVID wrecked havoc on the world. My latest work as Director of Photography has been DEMON MINERAL (2023), an award-winning documentary - shot in B&W infrared - about the baleful legacy of uranium mining on the Navajo Nation.

I currently reside in Chicago, USA.