Curriculum Vitae

Founder, Unseen Silver — wet plate collodion studio — 2024–present — Live Oak, Texas
Inventor of the auratype process
Silvergrain Classics — 2023–2025 — Bad Nauheim, Germany
Halle59 — 2016–2020 — Cologne, Germany
Freelance photojournalist and cinematographer — 2010–2016
Principal and co-founder, Trauma Training for Journalists — 2014–2016
Media Director, Discover Your Game LLC / Be Known LLC — 2013–2015
Intern, Erin Trieb / The Homecoming Project — 2012–2014
Director and principal, Operation: Zeus — 2011–2014
Intern photojournalist, Stars and Stripes — 2010 — Kaiserslautern, Germany
Combat Medic, United States Army — 2003–2010

Education

BFA Photography, The Art Institute of Austin — 2014 — Austin, Texas
Certificate, The Foundry Photojournalism Workshop — 2014 — Antigua, Guatemala
91W and EMT-B Certification, US Army Medical Department Center and School — 2003 — Fort Sam Houston, Texas

Selected publications

The Wall Street Journal (USA) · The Daily Beast (USA) · Bild (Germany) · La Presse (Canada) · De Tijd (Belgium)

Awards and honors

Combat Medical Badge, US Army, Iraq
Winner, Picture Black Friday Photojournalism Competition — 2012
Member, Phi Sigma Theta National Honor Society

Exhibitions

War & Memory — co-curator and artist — Photoville Festival, Hamburg, Germany — 2024
War & Memory — co-curator and artist — Photoville Festival, Brooklyn, New York — 2015
War & Memory — co-curator and presenting artist — Fovea Exhibitions, Beacon, New York — 2014
Soldier-Citizen-Artist — co-curator and presenting artist — Mid-America Arts Alliance Culture Lab Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri — 2013
Citizen ★ Soldier ★ Citizen — presenting artist — Lubeznik Center for the Arts, Michigan City, Indiana — 2013
The Homecoming Project — UTSA Gallery, San Antonio, Texas — 2013
In War's Wake: The Aftermath of Iraq and Afghanistan — The Dougherty Arts Center, Austin, Texas — 2012