Wherever I happen to find myself—be it a stretch of road I’ve been down many times, or a place I never dreamed could exist—I try to view my surroundings with soft eyes, greeting everything with possibility. For me this can transform even the most mundane scenes into something surreal and special. These are all simple things: Rocks, ice,
trees, a horse, a bed, buildings, the beach. But I want the viewer to feel like I have shown them something extraordinary. My subjects exist as I find them, but I want you
to believe I dreamed them up for you.
In my travels near and distant, the making of photographs for me is, in essence, the creation of a map of all the things I find wondrous, terrifying and bizarre. My efforts are equal parts documentation, emotional reaction, and an attempt to make sense of the history of the things before me for which there are rarely answers. Through photography, I examine the way man and nature collide and alter each other’s courses. I seek out places that have been forsaken and slowly reclaimed by nature as well as those he has never able to tame. These opposing forces are in constant flux and my photographs capture this tension, simultaneously seeing parts of the past and a glimpse of the future where mankind has been edged out.