#InLieuOfPortraits is an self-portrait series I created while in total isolation at my studio during the first few months of the COVID-19 crisis. The pandemic had cancelled all of 2020’s upcoming portrait work, so I decided to begin creating with what I had: my space and myself. Every portrait was pieced together using materials I had in my possession at the time, and inspired by friends and colleagues on Instagram.
"Photographic Memory" is a series of double (and triple) exposures in which I re-consider the process of capturing that "decisive moment" on film and attempt instead to capture the experience of memory.
Our memories are non-linear, non-binary, and even non-sensical at times. They are made up of layers upon layers of sensory information, all bound together by emotion. In these photographs, we travel into one memory of a city, a trip across the continent, and an afternoon of fleeting late autumn light within spaces that would vanish by the time the film was developed. It is a moment in time, not as I saw it, but as I remember it.
The Buzzing Lights Project began in 2005 as a personal series in which I documented aging neon signage across the US. Soon it grew into a full-fledged project, working to document the neon landscape of both the United States and Canada.
In 2015, after a decade of image making, a crowdfunding project was launched to raise funds for bringing the series to print as a hardcover photo book.
“Buzzing Lights: The Fading Neon Landscape of North America” was published in September 2016.
A collaborative work with Chase Joynt, hema·lu·mi·nes·cence is a cellular and atmospheric meditation on the relationship between the transitioning body and photography, which intervenes upon a culture that often validates and legitimizes transition narratives through visible, chronologically anchored change-over-time.
In 2008, with news that parts of Coney Island had been sold to developers, I headed to the coast to capture what might have been the last summer of Coney Island as we knew it. This series is revisited in 2018 via my art zine, Doublecrossed.
Mixed Memory (2013). These works are constructed from salvaged Kodachrome slides from the 1940's-80's. Each image is created using 2 slides/transparencies physically layered one over the other. The resulting image separate individual moments into one memory, much like our own mind in the process of recollection.
