Photos from a two week solo jaunt to Costa Rica in June, 2021 (Province 3 of 3 visited)

All shot with a 28-105mm Pentax 105WR on Fujicolor C200

Photos from a two week solo jaunt to Costa Rica in June, 2021 (Province 2 of 3 visited)

All shot with a 28-105mm Pentax 105WR on Fujicolor C200

Photos from a two week solo jaunt to Costa Rica in June, 2021 (Province 1 of 3 visited)

All shot with a 28-105mm Pentax 105WR on Fujicolor C200

Shots from the Tanque Verde Swap Meet, circa Fall 2019.

Photography from the streets of Chicago, Illinois during May of 2019.

White Sands Desert, New Mexico

Linen-shroud dwellers;
Only footprints in their wake ——
Soon masked by the wind.

Shoot of resident desert artist, Faith Christiansen Smeets, for Territory Magazine Issue No. 02, the “first moderne journal of the southwest,” published on the 19th of May, 2018.

Issue available for online purchase here.

Routine is the perfect match for a consumer-oriented society.  Routine is comfortable, routine is what we know.  Routine is the oil to our societal machine, but routine, eventually reaches a threshold —— a threshold flanked by Time and Efficiency.  In an effort to overcome our inefficiencies, we, the consumers, begin to trim extra information out of our sensory.  We see now only what we know.  We are now the most efficient at what we know, but only at what we know.  Now, what if we suddenly decide to see everything once again?  What if we decide that we want to see everything once again, but differently?  How would you see your new world?  This photo series aims to recognize the minute details that compose our daily surroundings under the light of consumerism.

All of the shoji doors, so neatly ordered along the road’s edge, remained open. The day was perfect —— that moment of the year between the frost and the flies.

35mm Nippon (pronounced kneep’pon, meaning Japan), is a collection of photography from Kyoto and Osaka shot on Ilford XP2 Super 400 film.

Telluride, Colorado

Two towns, separated by mountain, connected again by gondola. Two towns, now a city—or perhaps instead a false facade.

"Memory is redundant: it repeats signs so that the city can begin to exist."

Cabinets of Curiosity is a short photo series that highlights the dynamic elements of an otherwise static facade. Set in a monochromatic tone, this series aims to bring attention to the light and shadow that livens the most mundane.

When you're itching for the waves, the only lotion is the ocean.

Tokyo, Japan

House Vision 2016 considers the house as an intersection between industries, which makes it the ideal platform on which to project ideas about the future. Taking the house as the starting point reveals potential solutions for many issues, including energy, communications, mobility, the aging society, the relationship between urban and rural, and the preservation of traditional land use systems such as satoyama areas and terraced rice fields.

You are wise to climb Mount Fuji, but a fool to climb it twice.

Told as a sequential narrative, A Trek to Fuji-san re-lives the journey from Tokyo, Japan to the top of Mount Fuji 100km to the southwest. At 3,776m, Mount Fuji is Japan's tallest peak and no small feat.

I learn only so that I may be content.

50mm Nippon (pronounced kneep’pon, meaning Japan), is a collection of photographs taken during a month-long trip following a route from Kanazawa to Tokyo. The photography is all taken with a 50mm prime lens as a means to capture the every day emotions, details, and culture expressed in Japanese society through a single, consistent lens.

Tucson, Arizona

A city in chaos; into the tunnel they travel. Encompassed and engrossed, the four souls, fearless as they come, delve into its abyss. Light slowly subsides as the wicked unravels, deeper and deeper the four souls travel. 

Cotton candy clouds, perpetually extruding from the industrial complex around. Communities and children abound, yet always stifled by the persistent thickness of the air in which we drown. Systemic injustice —— the air we deserve —— as the industrymen’s pockets become evermore deep.

Cotton Candy Utopia utilizes digital manipulation as a means to create a new, yet false sense of reality. This small batch of photographs focuses on a juxtaposition of subject matter to convey a consistent, surreal feeling.

A plane whisks you away to a land situated in the past; a land so dense and deprived, yet alive with an opulence of culture and mystique.

Documentation of the 2015 Rickshaw Run, a 3,500km rally from Shillong to Kochi, India. The Rickshaw Run is a global charity event for Charity: Water, a non-profit organization bringing clean and safe drinking water to people in developing countries.