About
Photography has been a part of Shaun's life since he could grip a camera. In the early years, under the tutoring of his dad, he began operating a Pentax K1000 at the age of 11. His origins in photography began in the traditional darkroom and eventually evolved into the digital realm. While he enjoys the modern marvels of these digital dream machines, if he can create an image that might produce a nod of nostalgia, he will revel in that moment. Driven by a passion to breath life back into vintage cameras, he has recently returned to medium format film and photographing with cameras that range from 1909 to 1989 and developing film and prints in a traditional wet lab. Shaun’s eclectic interests in photographic subject matter are driven by a curiosity that seeks to capture a sense of place and connection with the juxtaposed, other-worldly nature of black and white imagery. Shaun believes that traveling is the spice of life and gains much of his inspiration from surfing cultures and learning about life from people who are far different from himself. He routinely returns to the Philippines to an on-going photographic adventure of the wide and expansive diversity of topography, cuisine, transportation, ritual, tradition, and natural wonder of this magical country. For him, the Philippines is his second home.
Shaun’s world headquarters is located in Yuma, Arizona. Although born and raised in Wisconsin, he has lived on both coasts of the United States with the bulk of his time in Chicago, Il. He completed an Associates in Theater Arts from Waldorf College, Forest City, IA and went on to graduate with his Bachelor of Arts from Concordia College, Moorhead, MN in Speech Communications Theater Arts and English Writing. After graduating with a Master's of Divinity from Wartburg Theological Seminary, Dubuque, IA, he had a brief career in ecclesiastical leadership roles and then went on to serve in several leadership positions in college academic advisement, career education admissions and human resources recruitment. When he is not busy behind the camera and producing photographic images, he is managing the business operations of a medical practice that he co-owns in the heart of Yuma.
After three decades of accumulated work, he is now taking his photographic offerings public.
"No matter how much our head and our heart tell us that we do not have all the time in the world... we so often live as though we do." ~ Ralph F. Smith