About Me

  In short, Def Campus is all things art. Before anything else, I always enjoyed creating as a kid, drawing, painting and building and I realized I was better at it than most kids my age. “Def Campus” was originally coined in 2012 and initially used as my DJ name. The name came about after a conversation I had with my friend, she suggested that I look into the word “hippocampus” which is a seahorse shaped part of the brain that regulates motivation, emotion, learning, and memory. After some work on the drawing board I kept the “Campus” part and added “Def” to the front. All the art that I have created since then has been under Def Campus. Initially I only dj’d, I love music, I love what songs can do for people and how I can control the entire atmosphere with the sound of the song I choose to play. It was and still is all about timing. After dj’ing for a few years I moved to Los Angeles and went to school for audio engineering. After graduating I began my career engineering full time. During this time I became more interested in photography and invested in my first DSLR camera in 2015. I spent a lot of time shooting with friends while I grew my skills. I got comfortable enough to where I knew my way around a camera and developed a good skill set so I began booking photography sessions and growing my clientele. The art doesn’t stop there, my mind doesn’t do well without adding new things to the mix. I began to paint again, this time on sneakers, boots, leather and jackets, eventually finding my way back to canvas. In 2018 I began sketching out clothing ideas and worked with vendors to bring them to life. Today I am a successful and skilled photographer, painter and audio engineer, growing my clothing line from simply “merch” to creating fashion pieces.