The photographic journey began for me as a second grader in Clay City, Kentucky, in 1978. My father set up a makeshift darkroom in our living room, and I was amazed as I watched the image of a flooded barn magically appear in the developer tray. That magic eventually turned into a career.

I started with newspapers and eventually spent over nine years as the University Photographer at Eastern Kentucky University, in Richmond. As University Photographer, I created images for all of Eastern’s major publications and news service, including the alumni magazine, sports media guides, and brochures — totaling more than 100 publications annually. I left my position at Eastern in January 2004 to devote my efforts full time to Tim Webb Photography.

I now specialize as a contract photographer, shooting Editorial, Corporate, and Wedding Photography.

In September 2004, Eastern gave me a permanent exhibit in the university library of my What Mankind Left Behind collection. It is a collection of photographs that take an artistic look at some things left lying around from the past in Eastern Kentucky. Also in 2004, I was a guest lecturer for the Department of Communications at Eastern, teaching photojournalism, and I am currently a guest lecturer, teaching Community Education photography classes at Eastern, and I am the photo coach for the photography students at Berea College.

I formerly served on the Board of Directors of the University Photographer’s Association of America (UPAA), and I was the Editor of Contact Sheet, the organization’s quarterly journal. I currently serve on the Board of Directors of the Richmond Area Arts Council, and the Advisory Board of The Eastern Progress. I also serve as the official photographer for the Touchstone Energy All-A Classic high school sports tournaments.

I graduated from Eastern in 1992 with a bachelor’s degree in journalism. Before returning to my alma mater in 1994, I worked for my hometown newspaper, The Clay City Times, as a reporter/photographer and eventually as news editor. I left The Times in 1994 to become a freelance journalist and photographer, working for various publications, and as a lab assistant for Vickie Miller Photography — a portrait studio and commercial developing lab in Stanton. I also worked as a media consultant for Judge Sara Combs in her election campaigns for the Kentucky Supreme Court in 1993, and Kentucky Court of Appeals in 1994.

I first became serious about photography during my senior year at Powell County High School, shooting my first wedding one week after graduation. I went on to become Photo Editor of the The Eastern Progress while I was a student at Eastern, and I served an internship for the Kentucky Press Association in 1992, covering the General Assembly for the state’s weekly newspapers.

My wife Natalie and I have three kids, Nolan, 12, Cameron, 8, and a daughter, Laura Kathryn, 6, and we have lived in Richmond, Kentucky since 1994, after spending most of our lives in Powell County.