I photograph minor and unheroic landscapes. Pathways, garden edges, woodland clearings, vacant lots, places shaped by repeated human use, temporary intrusion, and gradual change. These are not dramatic places. They are the places we live with every day, and I am interested in what they carry: traces of memory, attachment, absence, the evidence that someone was here and is now gone. The photographs are less about description than recognition. I think of them as incomplete. The viewer finishes them.

Alongside my photographs, I write essays and notes about photography, landscape, memory, and everyday life.

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