City Space is an investigation of the human experience of the built environment within the contemporary city center. Drawing inspiration from a mix of lived experience, observation, and research, the images in this project contemplate pedestrianism, anonymity, urban planning, surveillance, and the divide between public and private space. Working within the framework of street photography and the constructed image, I use city streets as a dynamic backdrop for the subtle, often overlooked dramas of daily life that play out in a city’s planned and built urban spaces. My fascination with photography's intrinsic connection to light plays a central role in my creative process. I harness the stark brilliance of sunlight not just to illuminate, but to transform urban landscapes into a space for psychological investigation. The photographs in City Space consider our lived experience of the constructed landscape that we inhabit, our relationship to it, and the people who surround us.

Stray Light is a photographic project aimed at imaging the nocturnal urban landscape. We have all but lost our connection to the night sky in large, densely populated cities. In its place we find a new cosmos, one of luminous windows that dot the night sky in an ever-expanding field of light.

With the simple flip of a switch, a window is illuminated in the built environment, marking an individual’s presence in space. I capture the light that strays from these windows with my camera, building an archive for each city I photograph. I then pull from this archive, carefully constructing each finished image from multiple photographs. Using this process, I speak to essence of the nighttime, urban landscape, and reform it into my own vision – one that seeks to reconstruct the heavens in its absence above the cityscape.

Stray light from city windows references the unknown, providing the sense of mystery and awe that we once felt when gazing up at the stars. As we look upon this illuminated landscape, we realize the city itself has become our night sky.

From Shadow to Sun is a body of work that came into being during the Covid-19 pandemic lockdown. We found ourselves in a moment of pause, uncertainty, and reflection, stripped of our daily routine and just making do. Early on, I found comfort in isolation by keeping my mind and hands at work. I turned to photographic abstraction as the vehicle for exploration. With simple materials, and the natural light illuminating my domestic space, I set out to create images that would confuse and transform the objects before my lens. Activated by the sun, the resulting abstractions reflected my own layered, internal emotional state, and the push-and-pull of my new daily life.