Photography
Interested in the interplay of human experiences and spatial interactions, where we uncover the silent narratives that shape our memory, identity, and the ceaseless dance of transformation.
Select Projects Below
Middlescapes
Middlescapes is an ongoing survey of the Midwest. It seeks to tell the stories of an imaginary place, found in reality. Through a visual inventory of past and current utopias, materialized in lines of corn, barns, constructed environments, and human forms, we are offered a reflection on the subtle interplay of history caught in an infinite loop—past futures, future pasts of the modern American vernacular.
Machine Learning
Machine Learning deploys post-industrial techniques to make meaning from industrial and rural landscapes. The work frames a collision of new and old by applying artificial intelligence techniques to his images. The new images are created in the “eye” of artificial intelligence software; interpreting and recreating often overlooked, disregarded utilitarian structures and out-of-the-way corners. This book draws us to consider emergent visual economies. Who is the image maker when we use such tools–humans or machines? And what do these tools and their algorithms show us that we have not already seen ourselves?
On The Plane
Flying is one of the most (extra)ordinary/ordinary experiences of modern life. When we climb to 30,000 feet, our perspective becomes that of a deity, with the rules of time and space altered as we rush over the earth. What connects the ordinary and the extraordinary is a powerful trust in the human capacity to take us beyond the mundane. The plane becomes a temple of humanism, where we put faith in all that gets us and keeps us up in the air – engineers, pilots, researchers, air traffic controllers – a web of people, underwritten by collective knowledge, keeping us alive, together.
Mid-Continent Modern
Mid-Continent Moden: The Champaign School of Architecture documents the contributions of Jack Sherman Baker, John Gordon Replinger, A. Richard Williams, and Robert Louis Amico to the local built environment. Over the last ten years, we have not only documented their work via images, but collected plans, elevations, and architectural models as part of a broader archival project. These places offer insights into the powerful subtlety of the vernacular. We encounter the translation and transposition of universal ideas in local contexts. The project becomes more than stories of a set of singular buildings or a canon of architectural style, but a meeting place for communities of ideas and social practice: architects in architecture schools, builders and materials, and owners within communities.