A dynamo of talent and grace the angels hover round. — Wendy Martyn
I’ve always had an interest in the arts, but it was always secondary to my interest in technology.
The first time I was introduced to video games, I was more intrigued by the controllers and game cartridges than by the game design and its challenges. Once I was given a rudimentary explanation of how the peripherals worked, I could enjoy the game for what it was. Similarly, when I was introduced to a darkroom for the first time, I was more curious about the chemistry and the physics than the artistic side of the photographic process. I had to begin by accruing a broad understanding of how black-and-white film developer reduced silver halide crystals into metallic silver and how the fixer subsequently dissolves the undeveloped silver halide crystals. It was only after that point that I could turn my focus to the process of translating what I saw in my mind onto film and paper, and later, onto the digital sensor and monitor.
As a result, I suppose I shouldn’t have been surprised that, when I first picked up a camera with serious intent, people who had known me for a while would constantly ask about my sudden captivation by the medium. From their perspective, I went from zero to one hundred in the blink of an eye. From my perspective, I had been laying the groundwork for ages, learning the technical processes academically and researching the various technologies before investing to accrue the tools of the trade.
Almond is easy to get to know mostly because of his great outgoing personality. Friendly to a fault, he is passionately committed to photography and it was a pleasure getting to meet him. Even if he thinks I’m a hipster. — Geoff Greene
Still, the balance between my interest in technology and my appreciation of the arts always skewed in one direction. There’s a great deal of beauty around us that goes unappreciated, either due to it being too small to notice, too commonplace to comment on, or too vague to understand. The mechanical wristwatch that tracks the passage of time without the passage of electricity. The sun’s final rays of the day as they refract through the atmosphere to give us a fantastic display of color and light. The poetic justice of capturing the tiniest atomic particle with the world’s largest machine. Our lives are inseparable from the technology we use and that surrounds us. However, my photography looks to document those moments made possible by our myriad technologies.
I was particularly fascinated by Almond’s confidence and sheer aggressiveness behind the lens as he exudes a delightful charm by getting right in front of people’s faces for portraits. I wish I were as passionate and brave. Almond has an incredible talent with photography and is also really fun to be around as he is an extremely friendly and happy person who truly enjoys life and his friends. — Tara Tapper
While the technical aspects of the art are essential to understand, balance, and execute, a perfect photograph isn’t solely about the technical; a perfect photograph captures a moment. I’ve often heard folks refer to a photograph as freezing time, but that’s simply not true. In 1967, the General Conference on Weights and Measures redefined the second as “the time duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the Caesium 133 atom”. If a second is over nine billion times as long as the time it takes for that atom to vibrate, then the fraction of a second during which the camera is capturing light is also millions and millions of those atomic instances. That’s not a point in time; it’s a moment.
Almond is one of my very favourite people. He has a real love for photography but more than that he has a real love for life. He has crammed more into his few years than I have in my entire life. I look very forward to watching him go forth and conquer the world. And showing me that world in both word and picture. […] He is a great photographer. I love his style. I love his enthusiasm. — Sonja Burgess
I photograph to capture a moment, I photograph because there is always beauty around us. We just have to look. And I want to be there to preserve that beauty.
I am originally from Houston, Texas and lived in Massachusetts and Connecticut before moving back to the Houston area.
Selected Solo and Group Exhibitions
2024. Street Seize Surprise: A Street Photography Showcase, Bangkok, Thailand.
2021. Sweet Soweto, BLK LVS MTTR, Houston, Texas.
2018. Maghreb in the Sahara / Venus in the Heavens, United States Jubilee Arts Festival, Houston, Texas.
2018. Much that Stands in Our Way, Southwest Regional Jubilee Arts Festival, Houston, Texas.
2017. Outlast My Love, Advanced Imaging Research Center, Dallas, Texas.
2015. Catalan Modernism, Texas A&M Engineer-Artists Exhibition, College Station, Texas.
2014. The Crossing, Hygienic Art Galleries, New London, Connecticut.
2013. White Sands, Mystic Museum of Art, Mystic, Connecticut.
2013. I Embrace BU, Howard Thurman Center for Common Ground, Boston, Massachusetts.
2012. White Sands, Boston University Photography Club Annual Retrospective, Boston, Massachusetts.
2012. The Red Line, Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, Boston, Massachusetts.
2011. Christmas on the Charles, Pavement House, Boston, Massachusetts.
2011. Compound Compositions, New England School of Photography, Boston, Massachusetts.
2011. Chasing a Dream, Boston University Photography Club Annual Retrospective, Boston, Massachusetts.
2010. Japanese Temple, Global Adventures and Travel, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
2009. Campus Life, Mugar Memorial Library, Boston, Massachusetts.
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