Boston, 2024
The Image Holds Still. Everything Else Moves.
What makes photography so powerful is the contrast between the still image and the time that moves around it. Seeing precedes understanding. The image remains fixed. Everything else moves. This is why I take photos: to train myself to see.
Learning to Find Quiet in Excess: NYC Contact Sheets May–August
New York is excess. Density. Layers of light, people, buildings moving so fast you wonder how it doesn't collapse into itself. Coming from Chicago—a city with familiar rhythm—I spent my first three months here disoriented by the sheer volume of everything. The streets don't
Suggested Subject
What's not there becomes just as important as what is. Suggested subjects transform exclusion into a powerful compositional tool.