In 2000 (at 18 years old) I was commissioned by the Matthew Shepard Foundation to shoot and exhibit a photographic essay exhibition on homeless queer youth. I toured with the exhibition for a year both in USA & Canada educating persons in government, community centers, and galleries on homeless youth issues. In 2001 California Governor Gray Davis used my exhibit as a tool to facilitate the passage of a bill that assisted the transient youth community. In 2002 the Canadian Parliament gave me an award for my humanitarian efforts after members saw my exhibition at ArtsCourt Gallery in Ottawa.
In 2003 I was hired to shoot and direct a documentary film for the Discovery Network on transgendered teens. The producers of the film had seen my exhibition and though I admitted to never shooting motion before, they believed that I could do the film based off the exhibition. I dropped out of college to do the documentary. It took me a year to shoot. In 2004 I was hired to shoot and direct a film in collaboration with The United Nations and Global Vision for World Peace to shoot and direct a documentary a film about the remarkable kids touring with The Children of Uganda.
My photos have been published in various publications including the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Rolling Stones, Time Out New York, Hollywood Reporter, Frontiers Newsmagazine, Seattle Stranger, Press Tribune, and LA Weekly.
In 2003 my photographs on homeless queer youth were published in the book A Face In The Crowd. In 2008 I published my first book of fine art photography called From The Outside In. In 2011 Mary Ellen Mark included my photograph in a book called Oaxaca XV.
I have exhibited in galleries in United States, Canada, and Mexico.
Today my main concentration is on my current series “For Consumption Only” , a project photographing nudes in a slaughter house that has been 4 years in the making. I have an exhibition at Skotia Gallery in Culver City this August.