Hi I'm John, take a look around and hopefully there will be something that you like! I

I started doing photography when I was 11 years of age. I was always exposed to the arts and a vastness of culture surrounding me due to growing up in New York City, which I believe has influenced a lot of my images.

My father was one of my first inspirations in photography. He did photojournalism on the Big Mountain reservation in Arizona photographing the turmoil between the natives and the coal mining industry during the 80s and early 90s. With his photos always being around I could always grab inspiration from the work straight from memory.

During my last year of high school I attended The International Center of Photography's Teen Academy Imagemakers Program, where I study under M.Wesley Ham. Wesley was probably one of the most influential people I have ever met. He would tell me to follow my passions in the subjects I decided to shoot and would always push me to try better and to be better, and how to really look at the environment and try to be in it instead of taking it.

After graduating from ICP's Imagemakers program and highschool I decided not to go to college right off the bat and to take a gap year, due to me not being 100% sure about whether or not I should continue to follow my passion with photography... among other reasons. During my gap year I continued to focus on photo as well as work and do normal teen things.

Towards the end of my gap year and summer of 2013, I started an Internship with commercial photographer Richard Burbridge as a photo assistant. This experience was phenomenal, I gained a ton of knowledge about the industry as well as picking up a few lighting techniques with on set shoots. As well as how to be professional.

Currently I am studying photography at Hampshire College in the hopes of being able to follow my dream of being a photographer for life. And if all else fails... I'll become a firefighter, that seems pretty great.