SIGNAL HILL
Urban landscapes from a small Southern Californian city defined by its one hundred year entanglement with oil extraction.
A MERGER OF DOMAINS
Urban landscapes from the Greater Los Angeles area depicting the boundaries of eruvs, Orthodox Jewish ritualistic enclosures made up of walls, fences, and monofilament that enable the community to congregate on Shabbat. These images, digitally altered to remove all cars, examine the relationship between community and proximity and the ways in which those concepts rely on mobility infrastructure.
(2018-Present)
THE UNBEARABLE SADNESS OF CHRISTMAS TREES
Images of Christmas trees between stages, no longer potent symbols of the Holiday Spirit, not yet ground into mulch. These images are about the sadness that sets in once purpose ends but existence continues.
(2018-Present)
THE KOBE MURALS
Urban landscapes of the murals that have proliferated around Southern California since the tragic deaths of Kobe Bryant, his daughter, Gianna, and seven others. These images document individual works of art that, when viewed as a whole, add up to a visual expression of collective mourning unprecedented in the history of sports.
(Ongoing)
BOARDED UP
Photos documenting the aftermath of the protests over George Floyd’s death, when the Santa Monica and Venice commercial districts boarded up for fear of looting and the community turned the plywood into vast social justice-themed art galleries.
(2020)
THE GOLDEN TRIANGLE
Street photographs from Rodeo Drive, the commercial heart of Beverly Hills and global symbol of conspicuous consumption. An examination of the street’s role as a factory for the production of images conveying the importance and desirability of wealth, one’s proximity to it, and, by extension, the street’s own significance.
(2017-2018)
SHADE IN THE SUN-BAKED CITY
Images capturing the heated battle between Los Angeles residents and the sun. A catalogue of creative solutions for finding or producing shade in a city that has prioritized maximizing sunlight.
(2016-2019)
BODY LANGUAGE
Street photographs capturing the vocabulary of bodily expression, the many ways in which we use our bodies to make ourselves understood whether intended or not.
(2015-2018)
THE ANATOMY OF MELANCHOLY
Images about the moments of waiting, when no activities are present to distract and the feelings of life flood in.
(2015–2017)
PHOTOGRAPHING PHOTOGRAPHING
Photographs of photographs being made, a brief and incomplete glossary of gestures we employ in front of and behind the camera.
(2015-2018)
SPIED
Photographs unintentionally recording a particular and uncomfortable moment familiar to every street photographer, when the subject catches the photographer in the act of photographing them.
(2015-2018)
AMUSEMENT
Photos from the Santa Monica Pier, one of the longest-serving sources of entertainment in Los Angeles, where the iconic Route 66 meets the Pacific Ocean.
(2014-2017)
THE ACADEMICIANS
Portraits and documentary photographs of youth soccer players in Cote d’Ivoire, all of whom are chasing the dream of a professional career.
(2016-2017)
HELLO STRANGER
Street portraits of residents of Los Angeles, primarily photographed in Culver City and Downtown.
(2014)
KINGDOM COME
Street portraits from Culver City, Hollywood, Downtown, and Venice.
(2012)
ARCHITECTURE
Images of commercial exteriors and interiors.
(2016-Present)