My Suburbia is a street photography project of over 70 film photographs rooted in the overlooked corners of a specific region along the Salish Sea—where I live, work, and raise my family. These images are drawn from a deeply familiar place: not a site of spectacle or exoticism, but of daily ritual, quiet repetition, and subtle change. I’m photographing the culture I belong to—suburbia in its most ordinary form—and trying to see it clearly, from within.

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I never imagined I’d leave a metropolitan life. For years, I moved through cities with energy and intention, surrounded by density and momentum. Living in a quieter, slower, more insulated environment has required cultural adaptation—and even now, I sometimes feel more like a participant-observer than a full insider. That tension drives the work. I look at my surroundings with a mix of belonging and distance, curiosity and restlessness. 

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This is not autobiography, exactly. It’s more like a map of how I see—a record of what draws my attention in the spaces I move through every day. Influenced by the quiet rigor of New Topographics and grounded in a background in visual anthropology, the images form a subjective ethnography: intimate, local, and a little uneasy. In photographing suburbia, I’m not trying to critique or celebrate it. I’m trying to understand what it means to live here—to pay attention to it—and what that might say about me.