Here are photographs I took for Gracie Philadelphia during one of Regis Lebre's visits from Gracie San Diego. Regis was originally the head instructor at Gracie Philadelphia before moving to San Diego to open a school there with Royler Gracie under Gracie Humaita. Now Brian Rago and Zak Maxwell own and run Gracie Philadelphia with Regis continuing to travel to Philadelphia 3-4 times a year to give seminars and instruction.

These are images that I shot with a Polaroid SX-70 camera using Time Zero and Polaroid 600 film, circa 2002 - 2005. Most were taken while I was traveling around on my motorcycle throughout the U.S.A. and parts of Canada. I specifically like the Polaroid because of its sacrifice of control, forcing intimacy with chance. I also love the forced viewing distance of a Polaroid that embraces intimacy of an arms length, much like that of a playing card.

I used these to enter the annual Warsaw photo festival and took third place. They were also later used in my exhibition All thats Left.

This is a series of 4x5 view camera portraits I did circa 2000. They were people close to me that I wanted to show in the spaces I most frequently saw them in.