About

born in vermont (before ben and jerry’s was cool) / found to possess artistic talent at an early age / art teacher is a nun / nun encourages him to draw / graduates at the top of his high school class / changes major in college three times / spends time in the amazon and galapagos / gets bit by monkey / hates monkeys / joins US Army as Cavalry Scout / deployed to kosovo / wears stetson and spurs / flies in blackhawk helicopters / shoots big guns very well / snowboards a lot in colorado / gets a job in hazmat / hates hazmat / buys first camera / moves to korea / teaches kids english / meets great korean lady / tells her he wants to be an artist / photographs everything from the great wall to the hermit kingdom / moves to san francisco to go to art school / amazing korean lady follows / earns MFA / teaches photography at the academy / wins awards / featured in gallery shows / collaborates with spectacular people and brands / celebrates birth of beautiful baby girl / moves to portland / starts a decade at nike with nike sb / keeps flying to san francisco once a month for wild fork foods and an incredibly talented team in berkeley / runs labier creative across three cities / becomes a 3d footwear editor at nike and learns to build shoes that don’t exist yet / celebrates birth of second beautiful baby girl / 2023: stops leaving his girls / has been local to portland ever since / builds a six-camera photogrammetry rig for nike’s deep capture studio / discovers generative ai and recognizes it as the thing he’s been doing by hand for twenty years / puts it to work / occasionally flies to korea or the east coast to see friends and family / otherwise found on a paddleboard at the lake or camping in the mountains of oregon / thanks god daily for the family that is the light of his life / continues working with a military mindset to shoot, move, and communicate

3D Visualization Specialist / Lead Photographer · Applied AI Creative Technologist, Nike Deep Capture Studio (2023–2026)

CMG 3D Footwear Editor, Nike (2018–2022)

Founder & Creative Technologist, LaBier Creative (since 2008): 130+ engagements, 35+ multi-year clients including Nike and Intel

Instructor, Photography, Academy of Art University (2014–2016)

MFA Photography, Academy of Art University · B.A. Environmental Science, Boston University

U.S. Army, 19D Reconnaissance Scout, Sergeant. F Troop (Fantom Recon), 1st Brigade, 1st Armored Division; NATO peacekeeping, Kosovo, Camp Bondsteel