Barbuda
Works from two visits, five years apart, to the small Caribbean Island of Barbuda. On a mission to document the aftermath of Hurricane Irma, to being able to sleep again and ultimately to understand deeper.
King Monkey and the Infinite Sunshine
Works depicting the balance between nature and humankind. Photographed across the globe and initially exhibited at Gallery27 in Santa Barbara.
Stroller Rides
Memories from ages below five are rarely carried into adulthood and I was concerned that my son would forget about our stroller rides and the way these scenarios were teaching him to think abstractly. In response to that realization, I mounted a camera right above his head on our stroller and started documenting our adventures from his perspective.
Portraits
Works in Portraiture featuring subjects encountered across the globe. Some I have spent a lot of time with, some I met for not much longer than it took to photograph them.
Isla Vista
Works photographed in the small community of Isla Vista just north of the campus of the University of California Santa Barbara. Isla Vista delivers a unique mash-up of beautiful natural environments, peace lovers, communal gardens and academics on one side while most of the noise comes from party-hungry youngsters, left to their own devices for the first time and trying to add their mark to a notorious history.
Straight from the Minibar
A body of work chronicling my experience staying in hotels across the globe as a photography assistant between 2006 and 2013.
Hotel Room Mods
Installation works documented in photographic form. These chairs are balanced in perfect negative stability, some stayed balanced for minutes, some just long enough for me to run to the camera and press the button. Photographed in hotel rooms across the globe.
The Bamboo Diaries
“In 2011 I headed to China with my friend Bryon Friedman to source a supplier of bamboo for Bryon’s company Soul Poles. Soul Poles makes ski poles out of bamboo and Bryon needed not only high quality and consistency from the supplier, he needed soul. This is the story of us spending a week in China searching for bamboo with soul…”
Published in WATER Journal with a 30-page literary supplement featuring my full diary entry during the trip.
Apart/Together
100 Portraits taken during the initial lockdown due to the Covid-19 pandemic in the spring of 2020. Captured via video chat and featuring persons from across the globe. Part of this series was published in the Washington Post Magazine.