- Contemporary Photographer 

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My work operates within the lineage of New Topographics, yet resists its clinical detachment. I engage the landscape not as a passive subject but as a site of conflict—where culture inscribes, erases, and re-inscribes meaning upon the environment. These photographs are not merely representations; they are distillations—collapsed dimensions of space and time, filtered through a lens of critical observation.

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The act of flattening the world into a two-dimensional plane is not a reduction, but a translation. In this transformation, I seek to expose the quiet violence of human presence—its traces, its scars, its absurd permanence. Each of my negatives become a layered artifact through which memory, truth, and constructed histories collide. The resulting photographs do not offer objective truth (does any image?) Instead, they unearth deeper, constructed realities—ethnographic fictions that speak to the cultural psyche with more honesty than surface facts allow.

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For over two decades, I have interrogated the human-altered landscape through the medium of photography. With a foundation in visual anthropology from the University of Southern California, and formative experiences in both narrative television and commercial fashion photography, my practice now converges in the academic sphere, where I teach fine art photography at Bellevue College in Washington.