My life is an interweaving of images and information. Engaging with audiences, telling stories, and helping clients achieve their media and communication goals is paramount to all I do.

I am a cinematographer, editor, and colourist working with clients in need of corporate, commercial, and television content. I handle a variety of independent clients, while you can also find me at Echo Bay Media — www.echobaymedia.com — a documentary television and commercial video production house with numerous Canadian Screen Awards and Emmy Award nominations to its credit. My diverse skillset has spanned every one of Echo Bay Media’s television series, from pre-production research for our television productions to Colourist on Uprooted with Sarah Sharratt (Cooking Channel; Bell Gusto) to, most recently, Camera Operator on Into the Rising Sun (Amazon Prime Video/Tubi) shot across southern Japan.

Further, as one of Canada’s foremost academic authorities on Canadian culture, national identity, and government policy, my numerous journal articles and two books — Canadian Content: Culture and the Quest for Nationhood and Canuck Rock: A History of Canadian Popular Music — are taught at universities at home and in Canadian Studies departments around the world. My post-doctoral and professorial work provided a foundational skillset for research and information gathering and analysis services for the media and communication sectors. From preparing cinematic itineraries for remote video production to fact-checking television programming, combing archival fonds and mass media alike, I have a tremendous love for information and distilling complex elements into engaging content for wide-ranging audiences. I particularly enjoyed content research, analysis, and reporting for My Pacific Quest/Over the Horizon (NatGeo; OutsideTV), Gemini Award-winning Departures (OLN; NatGeo; Netflix), underwater exploration show Descending (OLN; Travel Channel; OutsideTV), and international dive series Ocean Mysteries (Discovery) staring the Cousteaus.

For over twenty years I have been crafting images and stories, from the Colombian Amazon rainforest for Outpost Magazine to documenting domestic Syrian refugee and First Nation profiles for Al Jazeera news. Some notable projects include photographing and writing for EatDrinkTravel.com across the ancient German heartland; documenting large-scale Infrastructure Ontario projects; writing about the ‘Craft Beer Trail’ for Massachusetts Tourism; photographing the 'Come Wander' tourism campaign for the Ontario's Highlands; and traversing every Canadian province and the NWT for the Canadian Cancer Society. I think back fondly on spending a month photographing an exhibition for Amnesty International Thailand from the southern border to the northern mountain tribes. I photographed Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi on the election trail in northern Myanmar soon after release from decades of house arrest. I documented the 'Red Shirt' riots in Bangkok. As an avid motorcyclist, among my favourite projects has been riding across Jordan from the Syrian border to the Red Sea to write and photograph for the Jordanian Tourism Board and Outpost magazine. And I could happily spend the rest of my life continuing to photograph street life in Japan, a country I have travelled extensively from the snow peaks of Hokkaido to the palm trees of Kyushu.

Film photography is a passion and many of the shots in the Travel section were done on a 1959 Canon 'Populaire' Rangefinder and 1980s Canon AE-1.