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I am a college student attending the University of Hawaii at Manoa, and just finished up an internship with the Honolulu Advertiser.

I am a freelance visual journalist based in Honolulu, Hawaii. Available for assignments that do not conflict with school.

It was in 2006 that I first picked up a SLR and started to make photos, but it wasn't until January of 2008 that I had become serious about making images, and I was introduced to the world of visual journalism.

In the short time that I've been doing this, photography has given me opportunities and taken me places I would have otherwise thought impossible. From working out of a small locker room with five other photographers, on the sidelines of football games, to meeting Princesses of far off counties, I've been truly fortunate.

Growing up and living in Hawai'i has given me access to the different cultures of the Pacific Rim, allowing me to better understand the people and enabling me to make iconic story-telling images, capturing the essence of the human condition we encounter every day.

In my approach to visual journalism, there are two key factors that define the image: light and vision. I seek to place the viewer where he or she is unable to be. I want to give readers the ability to view a perspective they haven't seen before, enabling the photograph to transcend the mundane and mediocre.



My photographs have appeared in:
USA Today, The New York Times, The LA Times, The Washington Post, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Chicago Tribune, TIME, People Magazine, LIFE, Newsday, the Honolulu Star-Bulletin, the Honolulu Advertiser, and more.

I have shot for:
Corbis, Getty, Bloomberg News, The European PressPhoto Agency, Black Star, Sipa Press USA, United Press International Photos, Polaris Images, Consolidated News Photos, The Honolulu Star-Bulletin, The Honolulu Advertiser, The Maui News and the White House Press Pool.