I specialize in architectural, real estate and urban photography. A former architecture critic, senior architectural adviser to Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley and senior staffer at Skidmore Owings & Merrill, I have spent more than 10 years seriously involved with the built environment. My experience allows me to use photojournalistic and documentary-style approaches to show buildings and places as dynamic, inviting and human spaces, rather than sterile, empty utopias.

I have shot assignments for a variety of clients including Mareli Development and the architecture firms of OWP/P, Skidmore Owings & Merrill, KASI Designs and Edward Windhorst + James Gorski Architects. My architectural photography has appeared in Old House Journal magazine, the Society of Professional Archivists newsletter and Field New Sports Journal.

I am also a Chicago writer, critic, professor and adviser on architecture and urbanism and an adjunct associate professor of architecture at the University of Illinois Chicago. My work in this realm often explore the development and livability of cities; architectural preservation; mass transportation and regentrification; the architecture of Chicago's historic Bronzeville area and other African American neighborhoods; and the relationship between politics and architecture.