I am a documentary cinematographer and director specializing in vérité shooting with a passion for outsider stories and sensitive subject matter. I strive to create beautiful, emotional, character-driven films. In the field, I try to maintain a friendly calm to put people at ease. While rolling, I listen and shoot for story.

Based in Brooklyn before the pandemic, I now live in Newburgh, NY in the Hudson Valley but continue to work as a local in New York City. I can also work as a local in Boston as well as San Francisco.

Most of my recent work has been for documentary television series and feature documentaries including On Pointe (Disney+), a six-part series that follows the talented young dancers at the School of American Ballet, and The Weekly (FX/Hulu), the first season of The New York Times’ television show.

I have also shot two feature documentaries for HBO about the opioid epidemic, several documentaries for PBS Frontline, feature documentaries that have screened in festivals including the 2021 SXSW Film Festival and 2017 Tribeca Film Festival, two short documentaries selected as Vimeo Staff Picks, and a New York Times’ Op-Doc.

I have extensive experience working internationally and am HEFAT trained.

Please check out my CV and IMDB page for a list of my credits.

I am currently co-directing my first feature documentary, Nomads, along with my partner, Josh Gleason. Together, we own Lovely Louise Pictures. We were selected to pitch Nomads at the 2020 Big Sky Pitch and Doclands Film Festival’s DocPitch, where we were awarded a Jury Prize. Nomads was also selected as a “hot film in the making” by the Roy W. Dean grant and as a finalist for the Mountainfilm Commitment Grant. Josh and I directed a short adaptation from Nomads for Pop-Up Magazine’s Fall Issue.

I work for hire as a director for doc-style commercials. I directed two spots for Facebook’s Internet.org in Tanzania.

I have a master’s degree from the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism (2011), where I was awarded the Dorothea Lange Fellowship for photography, and a bachelor’s degree in environmental biology from Columbia University (2005). I’m a proud member of Cinematographers XX.