Faden Photography officially began in 2026. The photographs started a long time before that.I knew I wanted to be an artist when I was eight years old. On my first trip to the library, I came across a book titled How to Draw Airplanes. I ran home and meticulously reproduced every aircraft in the book. I was hooked.

Photography eventually became another way to explore both interests.

For more than three decades, I've worked in advertising and design, collaborating with talented people and directing photographers whose work I greatly admire. Alongside that career, I continued making photographs of my own—during travels, at airshows, in cities and wherever something caught my attention.

I just kept taking pictures.

Along the way, I built an extensive archive of aircraft, wildlife, landscapes, musicians, people and places. Some photographs were made with a specific purpose. Others came from simply noticing something interesting and wanting to hold onto it.

As I've started revisiting the archive, I've noticed some common threads.I'm drawn to unexpected moments, interesting light, unusual perspectives and the relationships between people and their surroundings.

The subject might be an aircraft performing at the edge of precision, a quiet landscape shaped by centuries of weather or someone caught in an unguarded moment. What interests me is finding something beyond the obvious photograph.

Sometimes I know I've found it. Sometimes I discover it buried deep in the edit.

I'm still learning, and that's part of what keeps me interested.

Now I'm returning to years of photographs with fresh eyes, editing and refining the work, and building collections I believe deserve a second look. Some will become fine-art prints. Others may find their way into galleries, exhibitions and new projects.

I'm also continuing to photograph people, places and experiences. Portraits are particularly rewarding because they offer an opportunity to get to know someone and create something personal.

I don't really think of Faden Photography as a new career. It's an opportunity to give something I've always loved a more prominent place in my life.

And increasingly, I see photography as a way to connect.

It's a reason to catch up with an old friend, strike up a conversation with someone who shares an interest or head out with a camera and see what happens.

I love the idea that a photograph might reconnect someone with a familiar place, introduce them to somewhere they've never been or simply give them a reason to stop and look a little longer.

There's a lot more I want to photograph, and I'm looking forward to seeing where it takes me.

This journal will be a place to share photographs and the stories behind them.

I'll write about places I've visited, moments that caught my attention, the process of preparing work for exhibition and what I'm learning along the way.

There will be new photographs, discoveries from the archive and occasional glimpses behind the camera.Ultimately, I want Faden Photography to be a place where the work speaks for itself—and where people can find photographs that mean something to them.

After a lifetime of making art and photographs, this feels less like starting something new than making room for something that's been there all along.

Welcome to Faden Photography.