Artist Statement

Photography allows me to examine the unstable boundary between the human and nonhuman worlds. My work explores landscapes, ecosystems, wildlife, and sites of human activity as interconnected expressions of a single environment shaped simultaneously by geological time, biological processes, and human ambition.

I am drawn to places where these forces become visible in tension with one another: moments in which wilderness and civilization, permanence and transience, beauty and disruption coexist within the same frame. Rather than treating nature as separate from humanity, I approach the landscape as something continuously altered by presence, memory, extraction, movement, and perception.

The act of being physically present is central to my practice. At a time when increasing numbers of images are produced remotely, algorithmically, or consumed instantaneously, I remain interested in photography as an embodied and durational experience. My photographs are made through sustained observation and are intended to reward slow looking. Working with large-format film and high-resolution digital processes allows me to construct images with layered detail, shifting points of attention, and complex spatial relationships that unfold over time rather than delivering themselves immediately.

Scale is important to the work. Large prints invite viewers into a prolonged encounter in which subtle gestures, traces, and relationships gradually emerge. I am interested in the way a still photograph can compress multiple temporalities at once: the instant of exposure, the accumulation of ecological and human history, and the changing experience of the viewer moving through the image.

Whether depicting remote wilderness, altered terrain, wildlife, or the visible imprint of human systems upon the land, my work asks viewers to reconsider how we locate ourselves within the living world — not as observers standing apart from nature, but as participants inseparably embedded within it.