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I’m Sean!

I’ve been in the creative game since I tried to drop out of college and become a musician. Though the pops wouldn’t let me drop out, I still did the music thing for a while, and through that endeavor tripped and fell into shooting video.

I have 12+ years of experience in film, and over the last few years have found a major passion in still photography.

As a director, I like to try and blur the line between documentary and commercial shine - to leave each piece knowing we said what we needed to say about the product while also inspiring someone to feel something more emotionally rich.

As a photographer, I like to capture the “natural” in people with portraiture, and the clean and composed with a product.

I crave exciting and passionate projects with people who are pursuing their wildest dreams, and who have the scars to prove it.

CONTACT me if that’s you, for goodness sakes please get coffee with me and tell me everything.


 

"The fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and science. He who knows it not and can no longer wonder, no longer feel amazement, is as good as dead, a snuffed-out candle."

-Albert Einsten

Simul Justus et Peccator

 
 

 

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This is one of my favorite works from Rembrandt. It’s called “The Good Samaritan.”

If you’re not familiar with the biblical story, it’s about a man who’s been robbed and badly injured laying on the side of the road for dead, passed over by a priest and a levite (basically two of the most touted people in that culture).

But a third person, the good samaritan, picks this guy up, puts him on his donkey and carries him to an inn. There he pays for a room and says he’d be back to check on the man. This sketch is a depiction of that moment.

But there’s something peculiar about the sketch, can you see it?

There’s the inn and the inn-keeper talking with the samaritan, the guy he picked up, the donkey and some other folks… and a dog...

taking a DUMP.

A master of art, one of the most gifted and influential draftsmen to ever live sketches this masterpiece of contrast and composition, and there in the corner adds a mangy mutt doing its business in front of God and everyone.

Don’t miss the point.

Rembrandt understood that compassion as a person who exclaims and proclaims trust and faith in the almighty God of heaven should overflow out of said person so naturally and unrestricted as a creature doing its business, as it does every day, without inhibition.

What comes so naturally to this dog should be ever so natural to the Christian person walking about.

I couldn’t agree more.

In my practice as a creative and a devoted Christian, I find every single day how much I misdirect my focus on the natural outflow of the two things I define myself by most. I worry about how much money I’ll make through creativity and if I’ll be able to support my family, and doubt that my faith could ever hold up in the tension of not knowing what is coming next - both of which are obvious restrictions to the flow of the proverbial river.

This sketch is a constant reminder to let go, to “be” rather than only “do.” It’s a smack in the face to harness what comes most naturally, instead of trying to please some exterior expectation of what I should be.

However you found your way to my portfolio, go away reflecting on who you are, because I’d bet there’s something in there getting squashed to appease some external pressure that probably won’t matter in 5 years. Go make something that you care about, while still balancing the “have to’s” of course, but don’t give up on the still small flame that got you into this mess in the first place, when it was fun. That’s what’s natural, be natural.

Go take a dump.