Grand Haven Beach, 2017
Medium format digital photograph on metallic paper
40 x 60 inches
My work centers on the lived experience of my body as both subject and instrument. As a gay disabled man and power wheelchair user, I photograph from a physical vantage point that cannot be separated from who I am. The camera does not observe from a neutral position. It moves with me, at my height, through queer spaces, bedrooms, streets, and moments of intimacy. This perspective reshapes how bodies appear, how power circulates, and how desire is seen and felt.
Working across staged portraiture and street photography, I collapse the boundary between documentation and collaboration. My images confront the politics of visibility surrounding disability and sexuality, refusing the desexualization and erasure historically imposed on disabled bodies. The work insists on presence, agency, and erotic autonomy.
Photography, for me, is both evidence and embodiment. It records not only what is in front of the lens, but the conditions of its making. The images carry the tension between vulnerability and control, exposure and authorship. They ask what it means to look, and who has historically been permitted to be seen.
Ultimately, my practice is about reclaiming authorship over my own image and, by extension, expanding how disabled and queer bodies exist within visual culture. The work does not seek permission. It asserts itself, unapologetically, as lived truth.