Photographer and Visual Storyteller

Commercial Work

Kansas City commercial photography

Commercial photography that earns attention.

Selected product, food and drink, and lifestyle work for campaigns, ecommerce, retail, and social—made with art directors, agencies, and in-house teams.

KC Current holiday campaign portraitKC Current · Holiday campaign
KC Current spring campaign portraitKC Current · Spring campaign
Commercial apparel campaign portraitKC Current · Campaign + merchandise
Selected commercial work

One shoot. A library that keeps working.

I build flexible image libraries with art directors, agencies, and in-house teams—moving between campaign concepts, controlled studio production, ecommerce consistency, location work, and the technically fussy details.

Campaign work

Campaign energy.
Built to travel.

Creative direction, merchandise, people, and movement—photographed to work across launches, social, retail, and out of home.

Dramatic Halloween chocolate product campaign
Christopher Elbow · Styled product
KC Current seasonal merchandise campaign billboard in Kansas City
KC Current · Out of home
Golfer mid-swing out of a bunker with sand spraying, wearing a Foregood printed polo
Foregood · Lifestyle campaign
Product, retail + ecommerce

Clean when it needs to be.
Curious when it can be.

Consistent frames for product pages and marketplaces, plus styled still life and detail work when a launch needs something with more personality.

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New Heights merchandise styled for a commercial product photograph
New Heights · Merchandise systems
Yardball baseball held in a pair of hands
Yardball · Concept + craft
Mersea diffuser arranged in a styled flat lay
Mersea · Styled still life
Modestly M candle set photographed with a hand
Modestly M · Human touch
Whiskey poured into a clear glass
Food + beverage

Pour.
Splash.
Sizzle.

Union Horse · Pour
Cocktail splash frozen in motion
Ludo's · Cocktail
Salsa poured over a breakfast burrito
Front Range · Food
Devoured pizza photographed against a red curtain
Devoured · Pizza

Cocktails, plates, pours, and the room around them—for menus, launches, social, and hospitality campaigns.

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The technical work

The fussy stuff is the fun part.

Glass, liquid, reflections, ice, and timing—the hard frames are usually where the interesting ones come from.

Whiskey swirling through a clear glass
Whiskey twirl
Mandarin apple fizz cocktail with foam and apple garnish
Foam + finish
Ice and whiskey splash beside a rye bottle
Liquid action
Motion + stop motion

Still work.
Made to move.

Looping motion, GIFs, liquid action, and tactile product moments give a campaign more places to live—without giving up the control of a still set.

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Animated Yardball Earth Day baseball orbit

Commercial work at a glance

Good for
Campaigns, launches, seasonal content, ecommerce, retail, and social
Works with
Art directors, agencies, and in-house brand teams
Deliverables
Photography, stop motion, animation, and web-ready image libraries
Based in
Kansas City, Missouri—with travel and remote product work available
Good to know

Questions, answered.

Do you work with agencies and art directors?

Often. Projects run from a supplied shot list and creative deck all the way to concepting from a brief—whichever end you need me at.

Can one shoot cover product, food, and lifestyle?

Yes, and it usually should. Product, food and beverage, and lifestyle get planned as a single production so a brand ends up with one consistent library instead of three unrelated sets.

Can you shoot motion on the same set?

Yes. Stop motion, loops, and liquid action are built into the same day rather than scheduled as a separate production.

Do you travel?

Kansas City is home and the work travels. Remote and out-of-market projects are structured around clear communication, focused reviews, and an organized delivery process.

How is a commercial project priced?

Scope follows the shot count, the level of styling and set work, and how the images need to be used. After a short conversation you’ll get a clear estimate with deliverables and expectations outlined upfront.

Can you build the site the images live on?

Yes, and that pairing is the point. Website design and development can be planned alongside the photography so the images and the site are made for each other rather than retrofitted.

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More photography and design work

Have a project in mind?

Build the whole system. Not just one good frame.

Tell me what you’re launching, who it’s for, and where the images need to work hardest.

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