Eric creates award-winning work for diverse clients such as Oracle, RitzCarlton, Cadillac, Quicken, Microsoft, Symantec, Silhouette and Monrovia Nurseries. He is an educator, having taught photography for seven years at Northern Arizona University as an Associate Professor of Practice, and anthropology as an adjunct at New Mexico State University. He will be part-time faculty at the University of the Incarnate Word beginning spring 2025.
His work is housed in the permanent collections of the 911 Museum in New York, the Wittliff Collections at Texas State University, and the Monroe Gallery of Photography in Santa Fe. And his groundbreaking Cowboys: East Germany is Texas Folklife Museum’s longest-running solo show. He holds an M.A. in visual anthropology from the University of Southern California, where he focused his lens on the social and psychological undercurrents of everyday life as told through a sub-culture in former
East Germany.
There’s a tension in Eric’s work between truth and mystery, beauty and emotional intensity, cultural curiosity and commercial know-how.
B.A., New Mexico State University, 1990
M.A., University of Southern California, 2010
2025- Present: Adjunct Faculty, University of the Incarnate Word, San Antonio, Texas
2015-2023: Associate Professor of Practice, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff,
Arizona (early retired)
2013-2015: Adjunct Professor, New Mexico State University Community College,
Grants, New Mexico
2011-2012: Digital Archives Specialist, Curatorial Assistance, 113 E. Union St., Pasadena, CA
1990: Staff Photographer & Lab Tech, Marietta Daily Journal, Marietta (Atlanta), GA
June-Nov 1990: Intern, Photography Department, Outside Magazine, Chicago, IL
1987-1989: Staff Photographer and Photo Editor, The Roundup (Student-run newspaper of New Mexico State University)
1988-1989: Staff photographer, NMSU Magazine (full-color magazine), New Mexico State University
1988-1989, Stringer, Associated Press, the Albuquerque Journal
Permanent Collections
Wittliff Collections, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX
Monroe Gallery of Photography, Santa Fe, NM
Alexander Street Videos, UK,
National September 11 Memorial Museum, New York, NY
Solo and Group Exhibitions
2023: APA-Chicago, Artist’s Perspective, Curator, Natasha Egan, Executive Director at the
Museum of Contemporary Photography (MoCP)
2021: APA-Los Angeles, Off The Clock, Selected Best of Show, curated by Rebecca
Morse, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)
2021: 9/11 20-year Remembrance, Monochrome Gallery, Flagstaff, AZ, September 1-29
2017: Cowboys: East Germany, Play Hamburg Exhibition Space, Hamburg, Germany
2009: Cultural Understanding through Architecture, Arts in Embassies, Washington, D.C.,
American Embassy, Nicosia, Republic of Cyprus
And more
Publications
A New Reality, A First Person Document of 9/11, 54-page hardcover book, Blurb, 2011
Popular Anthropology Magazine, Featured Visual Anthropologist, Vol.1 No.3, Sept. 2010
Cultural Analysis: An Interdisciplinary Forum on Folklore and Popular Culture, Solovyovo
“The Story of Memory in a Russian Village,” Book Review, Volume 8, 2009 (peerreviewed academic journal)
2014-present: American Photographic Artists, Los Angeles, CA
2012-2023: Board Member, Cibola Arts Council, Grants, NM
2024: Trash Pick-up, Basura Bash, City of San Antonio, San Antonio, TX
2024: Dog Photographs for the Animal Defense League, San Antonio, TX
2020–2023: Trail maintenance, Cibola Trail Alliance, Grants, NM
2015-Present: Mechanic & Sales, Sports World, Bicycles, a bike shop serving an underserved
population in Gallup, NM
2011-2012: Editor, Photography Section, Popular Anthropology Magazine, Print publication
and online magazine