Hello and thanks for taking the time to swing by. I wanted to write a little bit about myself, so you know who is behind the pictures you’ve been looking at. It makes me laugh a little, the idea that a few paragraphs could ever cover who someone is, but I’ll give it a go.

So let’s see… well, I was born in Los Angeles in the Spring of 1979, and although part of me has always liked to share that fact, the truth is that I have zero memories of the place and after subsequent visits back I realize that I’m very thankful to have left.

After a few early years living in Salt Lake City, with time spent in Elko, Nevada as well, my folks moved us up to Spokane, Washington in the winter of 88-89 and I’ve been here ever since.

I didn’t find photography until I was 36. Before that I had more jobs than any sane man would admit to. From grocery stores to fast food spots, music stores to freight companies, pizza joints, construction work, thermoplastics, I even spent nearly a decade manufacturing sterile injectables for a pharmaceutical company.

Since picking up the camera, I’ve dabbled in just about every avenue of photography you could imagine trying to find my own vision. I tried family photos and weddings (never again), senior portraits, product photography and real estate photos (something I still do for select clients).

With the coming onslaught of AI, many people think of traditional photography as quaint, or old fashioned, and that’s fine. They’re free to gobble up the slop that litters the internet and lurks in every corner. I mean, have you been on facebook lately? People who four years ago couldn’t string together a coherent thought all of a sudden become prolific “writers”, failed artists who never put in the time to learn are suddenly churning out masterpieces, and worst of all are the charlatans pretending to write music. It’s as if society collectively stopped feeling shame and everyone is comfy and cozy with the big lie.

I do not use AI for anything. The images I make come from my mind, my hands and my heart. And the words I write are from the same places. I just don’t like the idea of letting anyone, be they machine or another human, do my work for me. So that’s my word on AI, none here and there never will be. If that means my musings are unpolished or my images less than aesthetically “perfect”, so be it.

Most of the images you see on this site were done simply for the love of the art. Commercial work is fine, there is a need to make some kind of money from it, after all - but most of my best work comes when I’m doing it simply because I want to. I’ve been lucky to cross paths with a lot of cool people who’ve allowed me to photograph them over the years and I consider it an honor.

I do have a shop here on the site, wherein you can find limited edition prints of some of my favorite images. Ultimately, I just hope you enjoy the work, and maybe some of the words as well.

Anyway, thanks for stopping by and sticking with me as I wander down the path. I know there’s all sorts of flashing lights and noisy sounds, loud voices and endless reels competing for your time and attention these days and I appreciate you giving some of that attention to some words I’ve written here. I hope you come back around now and then.

-Cory