[ Clients Include ]

The Denver Post

The Sunday Times of London

Los Angeles Times

Reuters News Agency

[ Published Work Found In ]

The Denver Post

The Sunday Times of London

Time Pictures of the Year 2007

Time Pictures of the Week

The Washington Post

The Los Angeles Times

USA Today

The Charlotte Observer

The San Francisco Chronicle

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

The Boston Globe

The Richmond Times-Dispatch

The News & Observer (North Carolina)

The Indianapolis Star

The Honolulu Advertiser

The Vancouver Sun (Canada)

The Orlando Sentinel

The Free Lance-Star (Virginia)

When Armes was younger, images played an important role in his life.

His family, who traveled the world and the United States in the military, subscribed to news magazines, daily newspapers and watched the nightly news. Historic images and news events cycled through his home and impacted his future by showing Armes, at an early age, the power a single image can have. By being a witness - if not just from his living room floor - to current events, it showed him the world was big, sometimes mean and ugly, but also beautiful and full of hope. Even as a child he knew that he wanted to document this world.

Between college semesters Armes decided to begin a freelance photojournalism career - first at a publication in North Carolina and then at a south Florida weekly newspaper, published by The Tampa Tribune.

Before returning to Lenoir-Rhyne College, two years later, to graduate with a degree in Electronic News Gathering, Armes worked as truck driver, a canoe and kayak guide in balmy south Florida and as a misguided waiter in North Carolina to fund his pursuit of photojournalism.

It took Armes almost seven years of daily and freelance assignments, a newspaper internship, a few state press awards, late nights in a black and white and then digital darkroom, multiple empty coffee cups, hard work and perseverance for him to comfortably and confidentially say that he was a photojournalist.

After three years of documenting the American South as a staff photographer at the Hickory Daily Record and a contract photographer for the Associated Press, Armes packed up his Jeep and moved out West in Decemeber of 2007.

He is now a Denver, Colorado based photojournalist where he is represented by Sipa Press, a New York City and Paris based photo agency and a contract photographer for The Denver Post.