Photography

From 2018 to 2022, first as Assistant Creative Director and then as Creative Director for Washington Football, I documented the program from behind closed doors.

Credentialed media could cover what happened between the lines, but no one else had my access, so I focused my lens on the athletes themselves: their stories as individuals, and the emotional weight of competing at the highest level of college football.

That perspective was built on trust developed over years with the players and staff. It placed me in moments that are usually closed to cameras: behind an athlete in the mirror as they applied eye black before kickoff, beside players on the sideline in the heat of competition, and at the head coach’s feet in the huddle during the final address before they took the field as the ground shook from the roar of 86,000 fans.

The result is a body of work that sits closer to documentary than sports coverage. It’s an intimate, sustained portrait of what it means to be a college athlete, seen from inside the program.