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Long-form photo essays on landscape, portraiture, and the quiet documentary of everyday places. To browse by series or year, see the archive.
Iceland: Long Light · Landscape
In May the sun on Heimaey barely sets. It crosses the horizon, dims for an hour, and starts climbing again. Two weeks of that light changed how I expose for shadows for the rest of the year.
May 4, 2026 · 12 min read
Faces of the Borough · Portrait
A 4×5 view camera, a single roll-up backdrop, and one block of 5th Avenue in Sunset Park. Twelve portraits in three hours, and a long conversation about what a neighborhood actually is.
April 18, 2026 · 9 min read
Night Shift · Urban
A 24-hour body shop on Bruckner Boulevard, lit like a film set by sodium lamps and one bare halogen. Seven nights, three thousand frames, and a working portrait of the second-shift city.
March 22, 2026 · 11 min read
After the Storm · Documentary
I went to the Outer Banks six weeks after Hurricane Lila made landfall expecting to make pictures of damage. I came back with pictures of repair — and a hundred conversations about what the next storm will mean.
February 11, 2026 · 14 min read
Quiet Mornings · Landscape
Twenty mornings between November and February, twenty short walks at the edge of the same forest. A small landscape series about staying in one place long enough to see it change.
January 21, 2026 · 7 min read
Last Call · Documentary
The Empire Tavern in Greenpoint closed on October 30, 2025, after seventy-eight years on the same corner. I spent the final six months photographing the regulars and the room.
November 9, 2025 · 13 min read