NORTH OF THE SEA
Norway, 2025
North of the Sea emerges from three transformative weeks along Norway's southern coastline. Using both film and digital medium-format cameras, I documented my wife's ancestral homeland and our immersion into coastal life—living with her cousins, sharing meals steeped in tradition, and surrendering to the rhythms of fjord life.
This Nordic sanctuary instilled an internal transformation that occurs when one discovers unexpected peace in ancestral terrain. Notably, during the family's crab fishing expedition on my final day, I mercifully returned one small bait fish back to the sea, only to watch a vigilant seagull immediately claim it.
This singular moment revealed a universal truth: our well-intentioned impulse to intervene sometimes disrupts a natural order more complex than our understanding allows. North of the Sea captures both the tranquil landscape of Norway's coastline, and the humility that emerges when we learn to witness rather than alter, to document rather than direct, and to find peace in accepting what simply is.
LOST CREEK
Solo Exhibition/ Escape Artist Studios/ Las Vegas, Nevada/ 2021
Lost Creek challenges conventional landscape photography through a custom-built medium format camera using multiple exposures. Focusing on a dried Mojave Desert creek bed, I transform singular moments into fluid sequences that unveil water's ancient passage through stone.
These overlapping monochromatic exposures transcend documentation, revealing centuries-old water patterns and erosion stories within layered compositions. Each frame builds upon the previous, creating visual archaeology of the landscape's accumulated history.
This work challenges our perception of time and landscape, offering meditation on nature's fluidity rather than photography's traditional role of freezing moments. The technique serves as a bridge between human perception and geological time, allowing viewers to witness the usually imperceptible motion of our living Earth.
VIRGO
Solo Exhibition/ Escape Artist Studios/ Las Vegas, Nevada/ 2019
"Virgo" explores photography's power to transcend time and space, transforming candid moments into vessels for memory and portals for questioning reality. Like electromagnetic waves dancing through the cosmos—reaching distant corners of the Virgo Supercluster—captured light mirrors the universe's fundamental energy.
These photographs exist in perpetual dialogue between past, present, and future. Though static in form, they contain dynamic potential for interpretation, challenging our linear perception of time and transforming mere documents into contemplative spaces where reality becomes fluid.
Simply, we witness specific moments while engaging with light continuing its cosmic journey. This duality invites us to transcend singular perspective and consider our place within the greater cosmic narrative, where photography becomes both mirror and window to our universal connection.
Protesters
Solo Exhibition/South Bend Civil Rights Heritage Center/ South Bend, Indiana/ 2010
"Protesters" documents civil rights activism through black and white silverprint portraits, creating a visual narrative that bridges past and present struggles for racial equity. Inspired by Eric Etheridge's "Beach of Peace" and oral histories from the South Bend Civil Rights Heritage Center, this work focuses on the transformative story of the Engman Public Natatorium.
Operating under strict segregation after its 1922 opening, the facility became a catalyst for civil rights activism around 1931, when community leaders challenged discriminatory policies in public spaces. Using silver gelatin prints that merge documentary methods with artistic composition, I create portraits of those who defied the status quo.
The former Engman Natatorium now houses this installation alongside permanent exhibitions, transforming a site of exclusion into a center for education and social change. These portraits document historical moments while contributing to contemporary discussions about social justice.
NEVER LET ME GO: MEMORY LOSS AND THE ARCHIVE
Solo Exhibition/ New England School of Photography/ Boston, Massachusetts/ 2014
Hurricane Katrina's aftermath led me to my grandmother's water-damaged photographic archive—molded surfaces, obscured faces, deteriorating inscriptions. This encounter with physical degradation became a metaphor for memory's relationship with loss.
Working with found 35mm slides, I recreate the effects of water damage and deterioration, simulating the transformative processes I witnessed. Through these interventions, I generate new narratives from anonymous personal histories, questioning our societal impulse to preserve memories in their original state, asking "what if transformation itself becomes a form of remembrance?"
MY FATHER’S WAR 2017
Through surviving Kodachrome slides from my father's Vietnam War service, I explore intergenerational memory by manipulating and reinterpreting these physical remnants. Originally captured through his lens during active duty, these reworked montages create a dialogue between past and present, examining how memory shifts and adding a visual dimension to our ongoing conversations about his wartime experiences.
By engaging with my father's memories, I explore the space between personal and collective history, questioning how experiences are preserved and transmitted while connecting with the events that shape our family histories.