Recent Projects
Warped Organics
A Changing Earth
Warped Organics documents the changes our planet is undergoing due to pollution, global warming, and urbanization.
Pesticides flow downstream, plastic fragments abound, suffocating ammonia. Fish go sterile, oceanic garbage patches ever growing, our air turning to burning gas. Organic changes visualize themselves in plain sight. How much longer will we turn a blind eye?
Consisting of digitally collaged photography, these changes are visualized by unnatural colors, abstraction, and altered landscape. The juxtaposing of human made structures and wilderness, allow viewers to ponder how their lives are shaping the world we live in.
Emergency Broadcast
The Blue Galleries, Boise, Idaho, Nov 10 - Dec 8, 2023
Emergency Broadcast seeks to visualize my distress over environmental degradation, and social isolation in a digitally connected world.
Given time to contemplate my existence in this world, my mind fractures. Thousands of images overlap and tangle around my brain, inducing an existential dread that never seems to completely fade. Observing our world, my vision clouds with digital noise. I want to act, but can’t quite tell who the enemy is through my pixelated vision.
Ear-Ringing Chaos
Hardcore Music of Boise, ID, Photo Book, 2022
Ear-Ringing Chaos is a photo book constructed from denim pages, photos of Boise’s Punk scene and binding rings. I remember the first time I attended a Punk Rock show. It happened in a basement off of Capitol Blvd, and my friend had been encouraging me to show up because of the photography opportunities. Walking down the stairs leading to the ramen shop/punk venue, I felt a little nervous about the risks my expensive camera gear could go through. What if I got aggressively body checked, or worse thrown across the room? To my astonishment both of these scenarios would occur. There's something exhilarating about photographing such an event. An experience where nobody is worried about breaking your thousand dollar camera. The photographer enters a sort of dance to avoid injury, enjoy the nonconformist atmosphere, fast tempos, distorted riffs, stripped-down instrumentation, and shouted lyrics, all while trying their best to document the feeling of a show in photographs.
Today live music is one of my favorite subjects to photograph. I enjoy the opportunity to meet the people playing the shows and sharing my work with them. Most often people are thrilled that a split second of their heightened emotional expression can now live forever through photography. I chose to fashion the book out of denim because that is the clothing typically worn by many in punk culture. This trend has its roots in 1970s youth identity and represents the youth’s rejection of traditional music in favor of a genre more suitable for political protest. I hope the people that decide to look through this artist book get a sense of nonconformity, anti-authoritarianism, a do-it-yourself ethic, anti-consumerist, anti-corporate greed, and direct action identities that Punk represents to so many in my community.
City of Tomorrow
Cities Around The World
City of Tomorrow is an on going photo series inspired by and responding to French-Swiss architect Le Corbusier’s 1929 book "Urbanisme". The photography of this series asks the viewer to contemplate human's relationship with urbanized settings; show casing social interaction, crowded loneliness, and decay of American idealism.