[1] He moved to Minneapolis and got a job working for a web company, transferring west to Santa Monica, Los Angeles County, California in 2004.
[1] In 2005, unhappy with his screenplay and experiencing writer's block, he began taking photographs while walking around Hollywood and Downtown Los Angeles.
[8] He founded and was managing editor of LPV Magazine,[9][10] curating documentary and fine-art photography[11] in print for 7 issues between 2011 and 2013 and on the web.
[11] In 2015/2016 he was host and co-creator, with Tom Starkweather and Eddy Vallante, of The LPV Show,[12] a conversational podcast about photography books.
LPV Show guests included Khalik Allah, Mathieu Asselin, Richard Bram, Noah Kalina, Susan Meiselas, Greg Miller, Elle Pérez, Gus Powell, Ken Schles and Rachel Sussman.