Seeing Things

My photos highlight sterile, industrial environments that harken back to an age of polished, futuristic design. Striking a balance between the real and the surreal, my images explore an underlying fabulism to late capitalist production.

My work is an exploration of the manifestation of human persona on the exterior. I strive to find the fundamentally similar in the radically, uniquely dissimilar.

 

This set of images focuses on highlighting the beauty that can be found by placing a group of strong personalities and quiet observers into a foreign country with a thriving and very unique culture. Every photo relies strongly on the spirit and customs of both place and people to fill it’s space and give it meaning.

My work explores the leading lines and contrasting colors of city life. However, I am also interested in meaningful voids within the landscape that at times attract or repel attention. This dynamic fluctuation reflects the increased speed and mobility of urban life.

 

My work is about architectural abstraction. My photos approach public structures with a fresh perspective that uses composition and color to find the otherworldly within the everyday.

In this series, I (literally) bring light to people I see by experimenting with a specific style of lighting and juxtaposing these portraits with photos of their environments.

My work follows my adventures through nature, utilizing its stunning properties as both a backdrop to fellow inhabitants of earth and as a stand-alone landscape. The inclusion of man-made structures in my images also shows humanity’s near-complete infiltration of the natural.

These photos are the culmination of an exploration into what it means to be an object. Whether it’s radiating color or strangely shaped, I used my frame to capture the form of everyday objects and turn them into spectacles. I attempted to make Heidegger proud by not letting my understanding of an object to influence the ultimate direction the lens led me, inciting wondrous and potentially off-putting emotions towards the “fly over” objects that go unnoticed in their perpetual shackles of utility.

I appropriate the accidental artistic work of humans and nature as my own. Despite the lack of prominent human life, the trace elements of human activity present in the photos remind the viewer that that nature is a medium for manipulation.

My photography blurs the boundaries of reality and challenges conventional perspectives through the use of lighting, saturation, negative space, and angle. Moreover, the absence of an overarching narrative encourages the viewer to create his/her own by tinkering with the abstract.