Duration: Five years.

Staff: When shooting, I work with a group of trusted freelance producers, assistants and stylists, depending on the job. When I'm at the office, it's just me.

Education: I graduated from Brooks Institute of Photography with a BA in advertising photography.

Cultural Influences: People are my biggest inspiration. I realize that may seem broad, but everyone has a different way of seeing the world. I’ve photographed the CEO of one of the world’s largest energy companies and I’ve photographed a man who goes to bed early every night because he can’t pay his electric bill. I learn the most when talking to people from all walks of life.

Environment: I work from my home in Brooklyn, but many of my assignments allow me to travel to some incredible places.

Philosophy: “Happiness consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.” —Ben Franklin