About Me
On March 10, 1983, everything in my young world changed.
I was just seventeen when I came home to find my mother brutally attacked and left for dead. Despite desperate lifesaving efforts, she didn’t survive her injuries. She died that day.
That unimaginable trauma was only the beginning of my nightmare.
Instead of seeking the truth, Los Angeles Police turned me into their scapegoat, ignoring evidence and building a false case against me. I was wrongfully convicted of her murder — and sentenced to life in prison.
For the next 26 years, I languished behind bars for a crime I didn’t commit. Yet although my world was fenced in by steel and stone, my spirit never surrendered. I saw through different eyes — imagining the world I’d been ripped from. Towering redwoods. Shimmering city lights. Ocean sunsets I hadn’t yet witnessed, or only distantly recalled. I studied light and shadow in my mind, composing scenes I hoped one day to capture with a camera I could not have.
That act of imagining became an act of survival, and a quiet rebellion. A promised myself that one day I would return — not just to freedom, but to meaning, to art, to expression.
In August 2009, after 9,653 days, I walked out of prison a free man. Since that life-altering day years ago, I’ve devoted a large part of my creativity to creating images I once could only dream of. Photography became my way of translating survival into art — a form of expression rooted in absence, shaped by longing, and filled with gratitude.
But this journey isn’t just about what was taken from me. It’s about what I’ve chosen to build in its place: a life grounded in purpose, justice, and a commitment to helping others rise from their own broken narratives.
Thank you for being here. For seeing, and for being willing to look deeper.
my services
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Website Design & Maintenance
Complete Sites from $1,500 — Need an impactful website or expert care for yours? I offer elegant, user-friendly designs, customization, and ongoing management. Let's create something amazing together!
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Photo Restoration & Enhancement
Transform your faded memories into vivid keepsakes. Using state-of-the-art scanners, I scan, rejuvenate, and refine images to showcase their best. Pricing varies based on job size and attention required.
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Your Technology Fixin' Friend
Technology giving you the blues? I can fix glitchy apps, lost passwords, flashing VCR clocks ad more!. Affordable pricing, multiple issues resolved per call. Drop me a line, and we'll get everything fixed in one shot, quickly and efficiently!
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Speaking on Worthy Causes
I'm dedicated to using my wrongful conviction experience to fight injustices, champion causes, and inspire change. I aim to support needed legislation, be a voice for the voiceless, and turn tragedy into human benefit.
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Event Photography
While more avocation than vocation, I'm still finding my footing in project photography. Yet my love for visual arts, a quality camera, an eye for detail drives me onward. Browse my gallery to see if anything catches your eye. Currently offering this service exclusively to family and friends.
'Through Innocent Eyes' - An Artist's Statement
At seventeen, I was wrongfully convicted of my adoptive mother's murder, leading to 26 years of incarceration before the truth set me free. That experience — being stripped of my freedom, my youth, and my place in the world — shaped the way I see everything.
Through Innocent Eyes is a visual narrative born from that journey. My years behind bars forced me to develop a new way of looking at the world — one that finds meaning in stillness, beauty in restriction, and light in the darkest spaces. In prison, I learned to see beyond the obvious. The play of shadow on a concrete wall, the shifting light through a tiny window, the fleeting expressions on the faces of those fighting to hold onto themselves—these became my way of understanding the world.
My work is not just about what I see, but how I see. It is about the quiet strength in overlooked moments, the tension between confinement and possibility, and the resilience of the human spirit. Through my photography, I offer a glimpse into a perspective shaped by lost time but sharpened by an unbreakable will.
Through Innocent Eyes is an invitation — to see the world as I do now, with a deep awareness of how fragile and precious each moment truly is.
Wrongful Conviction Survivor.
Healing Human.
Photographer.
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