TJ grew up in Salt Lake City with the Wasatch out the back door. He studied Industrial Design at the Academy of Art in San Francisco, where he learned to read an object for its proportion, its materials and the reasons behind its form. He still photographs that way.

He moved to Michigan in 2005 and settled in Denver in 2008, and the mountains have been part of the work ever since.

TJ joined Virtuance as its tenth photographer and spent years photographing homes across the Front Range, learning what a listing needs and how much a single frame can carry. He founded Architectural Storytelling in 2011. In 2020 he stepped out on his own to grow it, and many of the agents he had worked with for years came along. Their referrals still bring us most of our work.

Three words guide every assignment.

You will find TJ on a trail, in an ultra, under a backpack or on a paddleboard. At home he plays a 1915 parlor grand by ear, with Monk and Mingus never far from the record player. He roasts his own coffee, throws pottery on the wheel, and still shoots film for himself, as a way to slow down and stay inside the moment.

Architectural Storytelling is a small Denver team of photographers, filmmakers and editors, working on around ten projects a week across the Front Range and wherever a story calls. The range runs from first listings to boutique hotels, architectural commissions and national brand campaigns. Every one is held to the same standard.

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