Photography Experience

Accolades

  • Joined PilgrimQuests to teach photo class again in Iona, Scotland April 2022

  • Haden Institute – Summer Dream Conference – taught photography “Shifting Perspectives” photography workshop May 2021

  • International Photography Association Awards – Honorable Mention – “What Lies Beneath: Traumatic Brain Injury” Fall 2020

  • Taught children’s online photography workshops – Photography Basics – a course created & designed by me Fall & Spring 2020

  • Teaching a spiritual photography workshop series at Chapel of the Cross Episcopal Church, Chapel Hill, NC TBD (COVID delayed)

  • Joined PilgrimQuests to teach photography to a group of pilgrims traveling to Iona, Scotland. September 2019

  • Photography & videography installation at the Duke University FHI Health Humanities Lab “Disability in the Disciplines” conference. April 2019

  • 63rd Annual Juried Exhibition - Durham Arts Guild show - Durham, NC - Juror Alexys J. Taylor, Collections and Exhibitions Manager at the Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts + Culture in Charlotte, NC - 73 selected artists and 83 selected works of art (45% increase in applications from 2016) August 2017

  • 62nd Annual Juried Exhibition - Durham Arts Guild show - Durham, NC – Juror Jennifer Sudul Edwards, Curator of the Bechtler Museum of Modern Art - 50 artists and 76 selected works out of 160 submitted works. August 2016

  • Cary Photographic Artists 8th Annual Open Juried Photographic Exhibition October 2015

  • 61st Annual Juried Exhibition - Durham Arts Guild show - Juror, Alice Gray Stites, Museum Director and Chief Curator of 21C Museum Hotels - 50 artists and 67 selected works of art were selected out of 208 submitted works. August 2015

  • Telluride Art + Architecture Tour - People's Choice Award – Team Telluride, CO July 2015

  • UNC Global Photography Competition - image selected for the 2016-2017 Center for Global Initiatives’ annual award-winning calendar, and was on display at the annual Carolina Global Photography Exhibition in the FedEx Global Education Center 2016 *This same image was also selected to represent the UNC Carolina Asia Center.

  • Experience

Member

  • Durham Arts Guild

  • Photographers Without Borders

Brands (some)

  • Delta Airlines

  • Fleet Feet Sports

  • Specialized Bikes

  • The Bicycle Chain

  • Endurance Magazine

  • Balanced Movement Studios

  • Balanced Physical Therapy

  • Embodied Yoga

Photography Shows

  • “What Lies Beneath: TBI” – NC Athletic Trainers Assoc. Conf. & ClearWater Art Center & Studios March 2021 - Present

  • “What Lies Beneath: TBI” - NC Athletic Trainers Assoc. Conf. & ClearWater Art Center & Studios March- June 2020

  • “Disability in the Disciplines” Conference, Duke University - Durham, NC April 2019

  • Artists United, Voices for Understanding by North Carolina Artists - Durham, NC June 2018

  • Caffè Driade - Chapel Hill, NC October 2017

  • 63rd Annual Juried Exhibition - Durham Arts Guild show - Durham, NC August 2017

  • 62nd Annual Juried Exhibition - Durham Arts Guild show - Durham, NC August 2016

  • April UNC Chapel Hill Global FedEx Building Exhibit - Chapel Hill, NC January 2016

  • UNC Global Photography Competition winner – Image selected to represent the Carolina Asia Center - Chapel Hill, NC 2016

  • UNC Calendar winner - Center for Global Initiatives – featured for the month of January 2016

  • The Carrack - Durham, NC January 2016

  • TTEC meeting, Brier Creek Country Club - Raleigh, NC December 2015

  • Caffè Driade - Chapel Hill, NC November - December 2015

  • Cary Photographic Artists 8th Annual Open Juried Photographic Exhibition - Cary, NC October 2015

  • 61st Annual Juried Exhibition - Durham Arts Guild show - Durham, NC August 2015

  • Telluride Art + Architecture Tour – won the People’s Choice Award - Telluride, CO July 2015

  • Perch Studios Co-Working Space - Carrboro, NC May 2014

  • Caffè Driade - Chapel Hill, NC April 2014

  • Fleet Feet, Inc. - Durham, NC January 2014

  • TTEC (Triangle Technology Executives Council) Meeting, Brier Creek Country Club - Raleigh, NC December 2013

  • Winmore Studio - Carrboro, NC 2012 - 2013

  • The Heritage Club - Huntsville, AL August 2009

  • Fleet Feet, Inc. Headquarters - Carrboro, NC May 2009

  • West End Wine Bar - Chapel Hill, NC February 2009

  • The Open Eye Cafe - Carrboro, NC October 2008

  • Chapel Hill Library - Chapel Hill, NC September 2007

Press & Partnerships

  • Modern Optometry, May/June 2022 - article “Identifying and Managing Patients with Concussion” by Jacqueline Theis, OD, FAAO, imagery - me

  • Starting Point, Brain Injury Assoc. of NC newsletter, featured article 2020

  • The Technology Headline, December cover story image 2018

  • Endurance Magazine April, cover story image 2017

  • Delta Airlines website covering the Cameron Crazies 2016

  • Enduring Strength by Greg Hansbrough, book headshot 2016

  • The Chapel Hill News 2008 & 2014

  • The Daily Tar Heel 2014

  • Runner's World – photo 2011

  • Endurance Magazine series of website and magazine advertisements for Balanced Movement Studios 2010

  • Barleycorn & Rye, promo band photographs 2010

  • Under Construction, promo band photographs 2010

  • Lingering Memories – Poems by Barry L. Reece, book cover 2009

Videography

  • Duke University “Disability in the Disciplines” Conference – Durham, NC – “What Lies Beneath Concussion” and “Concussion: A Visual Experience” April 2019

Public Speaking Experience

  • The Concussion Community August 2021

  • Embodied – WUNC - NPR show May 2021

  • “A Battle Within” PODCAST by Terry and Drew Niemann – Featured guest March 2020

  • “Faces of TBI” PODCAST by Amy Zellmer - Featured guest September 2019

  • CAMP MCDOWELL - Presented “Identity” talk, Nauvoo, AL June 2019

  • HUNTSVILLE AQUATIC HALL OF FAME,– Introduction speech for awardee, Margaret Hoelzer, Huntsville, AL April 2019

  • UNC GLOBAL - Intro to Photography seminar, Chapel Hill, NC June 2018

  • UNC GLOBAL - Photography Basics seminar, Chapel Hill, NC 2012

  • CAMP MCDOWELL – Presented “Identity” talk, Nauvoo, AL