Weather, water, and the people in between

About

Based in Brooklyn, New York, I make photographs at the edges of the map: remote islands, weathered coastlines, and the open sea, and the communities whose lives are shaped by them. I am drawn to landscape in its most dramatic states, when weather moves across a shoreline or fog settles over a fjord, and to the quieter human moments that unfold within those places.

I work alone, often for weeks or months at a time, with a single Leica. That solitude is central to the work. Long stretches in one place let me watch light change across the day and the season, learn the rhythms of a landscape and its people, and wait for the moment when atmosphere, gesture, and form come into alignment.

I am colorblind, and that difficulty in distinguishing color has shaped the way I see. Without the pull of hue, my eye settles on the elements that give a photograph its structure and its feeling: the fall of light, the weight of shadow, the grain of rock and water, and the mood of a sky. Black and white is the natural language of that perception. It belongs to a long tradition in the medium in which the full tonal scale, from the deepest blacks to the most delicate highlights, carries the emotional charge of an image. Working within it, I aim to show the world as I experience it, distilled to light, form, and atmosphere.