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I met Krista on Labor Day at a friend's Jell-O wresting party in 2004. It was lime flavored and she was wearing a pink wig. After getting most of the Jell-O out of my hair, we spent the evening drinking, laughing and flirting. She took me home to her apartment where we shot-gunned cans of PBR and listened to old country records. Sometime that evening, probably when she was dancing around in her red cowboy boots while singing along to a Hank Snow record, I fell in love with her. We moved into together shortly after that and were married three years later. Many documentary projects are filled with heartbreak and sorrow. This is filled with love.

I began taking pictures with a Kodak 110 when I was 8 years old. Since then my gear has changed but my love for photography hasn’t. In the newspaper business since college, I trace my photographic roots back to my grandfather Rex Hardy Jr., who was a photographer for Life Magazine in the 1930s documenting Hollywood and New York City. Drawn to the narratives that unfold from everyday situations, I am committed to documenting my community and the people who live here. The stuff of daily life inspires my pictures: family, friends, community, transitory moments, city streets and the narrative found through the passage of time. I seek to reveal the intimacy and familiarity in the situations I photograph. I am currently working on a long term project about teenage pregnancy and parenting. I live in Seattle with my wife Krista, and our dog Oslo, and I am available for commissions locally and worldwide.