My work emerges from a recognition that we exist in a perpetual “before.” The ordinary scenes we encounter daily are always one economic shift, one trend, one development away from erasure. I photograph with an urgency born from knowing that what we overlook is more fragile than it appears.
I am drawn to what persists at the edges of attention: what has weathered decades of changing tastes, the ordinary rhythms of daily life that continue regardless of larger narratives, the anonymous gestures that accumulate into culture. These are not ruins to be mourned nor relics to be romanticized. They are living moments and spaces, still unfolding, still shaping experience.
My camera performs a kind of cultural archaeology. Not excavating the past, but documenting what exists in plain sight yet somehow remains unseen. I search for poetry in the overlooked: the specific quality of light at a particular moment, the accumulated evidence of use and presence, the dignity of what endures simply by continuing to exist.
I resist the impulse to impose grand narratives. Instead, I believe that significance accumulates in ordinary moments: the way light falls at a certain time of day, the relationships between elements in a frame, the evidence of countless small human decisions and gestures layered over time.
In attending to what others ignore, my work insists that every corner of American experience deserves witness. Not judgment. Not explanation. Simply witness, before it becomes after.
Books
Small Towns and Rural Scenes of DeKalb County (2025) – includes photos taken over the summer of 2023 in DeKalb County Illinois.
Upcoming Works
Four Days in Manhattan – Manhattan street photography shot over four days in September 2025
Photos from Kane County – A work that encompasses rural scenes to the small towns and the large cities
Chicago Says No – Hands Off/No Kings 2025
Ongoing Projects
Chicago – Street and documentary photography from the city of Chicago
Tagged – A collection of images of street graffiti and tagged objects
Devices – A collection of images about our obsession with the virtual