About Liam

Artist Statement

Liam grew up in Joliet Illinois, an outer suburb of Chicago. It wasn’t till moving into the city to better pursue his education at Columbia College Chicago as a BFA in cinematography he found a medium and how to express his queer self. Liam finds his creativity most free when given a bounding box of limitations from which he works inside of. He strives to tell a story in a succinct manner faithful to directional intentions, understanding the overarching motivations. In his own stories he’s covered topics of how a relationship in turmoil is looked back upon, and how obtainable physical relationships are to emotional ones as a queer person growing up.

Liam is an award-winning cinematographer and editor; he attributes his tact as a cinematographer to his interest in post-production, much of the digital image is crafted in post than on the day. He finds joy in expressing stories through the appropriate mediums, he is deeply proud and learned what can be taught by shooting his BFA thesis on 16mm.

Liam is attracted to photography for its ability to distill what he finds captivating about cinematography. He is most captivated in photography with a sense of space. This approach is carried over to his motion picture work where the time is now a new tool to work with, he believes the work of the director of photography is to construct a world around the characters. To take the unique limitations of the lens, a single perspective, to tell the story.