I picked up a camera in late 2024 with no formal training and no particular plan.

I lost my mother to cancer that year. It took a toll on me, mentally and physically, in ways I wasn't prepared for. I needed something to do with myself, time alone, but not the kind that keeps you inside. Being out in the city, surrounded by total strangers and unfamiliar corners, gave me something I couldn't find anywhere else.

I work a full-time job and photograph whenever I can. Most mornings start the same way: a Wawa coffee before I catch the SEPTA Regional Rail into the city. Early mornings, weekends, and bad weather days are when most people stay inside. That's when I find the city at its quietest.

I live just outside Philadelphia, but that's where I do most of my shooting. Sometimes I'll hop on Amtrak up to New York City, and a handful of places in Europe when I get the chance. I use a range of cameras and lenses, but if there's one focal length I reach for most, it's 28mm.

I'm shy about approaching strangers, so a lot of what you'll see here is me working around that. Watching, waiting, letting a moment happen instead of asking for it. Unposed, unfiltered, whatever the street gives me that day.

I don't have a five-year plan for any of this. I just know that when I'm out early, half awake, waiting for something to happen on an empty street, everything else quiets down