I am an independent photographer, sometimes writer and sometimes educator in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where I was a 2023-2024 Knight-Wallace Fellow at the University of Michigan. 

Since 2004 I have maintained a documentary photography practice that has sometimes been expansive and experimental and at other times been much more traditional. 

For most of my career my interests have been relatively consistent. I document and interpret landscapes, natural phenomena and built spaces with a particular curiousity regarding how humans interact with or shape these places, or in some cases how the places may interact with or shape people. I also practice a more traditional sort of documentary portraiture with a broad interest in showing people who may not otherwise seek to show themselves. Finally, I have a sporadic diaristic practice, where pictures come from my own life as opposed to structured projects that I seek out. 

My project work has been featured in National Geographic, Time, The New Yorker, Phaidon and other publications. I have worked on an assignment basis for publications like The New York Times, The Guardian, and Bloomberg Businessweek, and worked commercially work for Herman Miller, Nike and others. I also exhibit work and have shown in the Catherine Edelman Gallery and the Ackland Museum of Art. My books are held in collections at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the University of North Carolina and others.

Outside of my projects, I have worked to found Sleeper.Studio, and Basement Art Space. I have lectured on photography and photojournalism at The University of North Carolina, Chapel-Hill and Ohio University.

Please take this website as more archive, less portfolio. I am always adding new work and editing old work. Always trying to climb out from under the piles of pictures and words I have accumulated. Thanks for visiting. 

- August, 2025