My Story

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Portrait Photographer · Lehigh Valley, PA

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TL;DR — My dad bought me a camera when I was six, and I never put it down.

Why I do what I do

Kevin Horn · BlinkPix Photography

I never saw my dad as happy as when he was holding his camera. He was a microbiologist during the week, but on weekends and at night, he was My Dad, The Photographer.

Many nights I would sit on the counter while he developed negatives, then we would go down into the basement darkroom to print pictures. This was our bonding time.

I must have been about six or seven when he bought me a Kodak Instamatic — which I still own — and I immediately used it to photograph my friends popping wheelies and my next-door neighbor in her nightgown and curlers sweeping off her porch. My dad told me the latter was not my brightest idea, and to cease and desist.

I eventually graduated to a 35mm SLR, and he and I would go out shooting together: everything from neon signs on Route 22 in Springfield, NJ, to buildings in the streets of New York City.

25+ Years as a high school
English teacher in NJ

2014 First Nikon digital --
began documenting Easton, PA

2024 Solo gallery show at
M Galleries, Washington, NJ

Before the camera became my identity

Before photography became my identity, I spent years as a radio personality in Honolulu and Asbury Park, and then 25 years as a high school English teacher in New Jersey — all of which taught me how to connect with people, which turns out to be the most important skill a portrait photographer can have.

Inspired by Brandon Stanton’s Humans of New York, I bought my first Nikon digital in 2014 and began photographing and interviewing the people of downtown Easton, PA — literally hundreds of them. I have since channeled that energy into opening a portrait business, pursuing street photography as an art, and exhibiting a solo gallery show of my work at M Galleries in New Jersey in January 2024.

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My dad passed away in 2020, but I still feel him guiding me every time I focus a lens and click a shutter. I know how to make you feel comfortable and anxiety-free in front of my lens. Portrait photography, for me, is a labor of love — and I’d be honored to make yours.

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