PROJECT PORTFOLIOS

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Before Noon

2021-present

Before Noon is a new series that explores the power of hopefulness of the people in cities with extremely high poverty rates, the idea is that every individual has the whole day ahead of them before noon and a clean slate prior to the weight of the world setting in on any given day. Often, the weight of the world can take away the smiles one may have in the morning or lead to individuals relying on other means to help forget about that weight and feel carefree.

I want to show each individual's hope, and community rather than the blight and misfortune many photographers focus on when not engaging with one's surroundings. Yes, some photographs show the deterioration of the cities I am photographing, but those images do not contain individuals. Those images set the tone of the perseverance of the individuals living in these cities throughout the United States.

 

Felicific Calculus: Technology as a Social Marker of Race, Class, & Economics in Rochester, NY

2017 - present

The payphones in the Greater Rochester area are part of a felicific calculus in regards to the decision made to leave the payphones and the locations in which they are located. Frontier Communications is losing money from these payphones and decided to maintain them for the greater good of one of the poorest cities by the number of people under the poverty level in the United States.

To many individuals, these payphones serve as a social marker or social indicator, and to others, they serve as a marker of crime. The perception of one area is worse than another is often drawn to a conclusion by such social markers. Often these perceptions can lead to dangerous or ignorant decisions.

Life-Lines Throughout the US

2018 - present

This series is a supporting body of work to Felicific Calculus and is an examination of various cities throughout the United States and the remaining payphones. While a supporting body of work the series does not provide the same in-depth analysis of the socio-economic situation in each city. The images serve as a supporting cast member to the fact that Rochester, NY is not the only city with individuals relying on payphones for their well-being.

PRIVATE | Now Back Go : Go Back | PRIVATE

2014 - present

As the Internet states, Albert Einstein once stated: "I fear the day that technology will surpass our human interaction." The world will have a generation of idiots." This body of work is a visual reference on how technology has influenced anything but growth, whether that is in knowledge or society, just like the irony that Einstein never stated such a thing.

Being a business owner in Upstate New York, I have developed a whimsical view of the daily environment surrounding me. We often tend to think that all technology advances us as a society/culture. Still, often we instantly forget about what has gotten us to the point we are at, as a society and within our lives. In regards to technology, the idea that we are taking one step forward is often leading us to take one action back as a society. Whether that is by monitoring everything that happens in an environment…


Thou Art… Will Give…

2002 - 2015

In 2003, one of my University of Arts professors, Heidi Kyle, introduced us to the American Philosophical Society's conservation lab. Almost as soon as we entered the conservation lab, I noticed three books titled 'Eastern State Warden's Logbook: I opened it idly.

The Warden's entries brought the Penitentiary to life for me. While my photographs from the earlier visit captured a lot of the physical presence and feeling of the Penitentiary, it was the writings that started to, literally, flesh out the functional and human effects of this altruistic, but ultimately disastrous, Quaker experiment with reforming criminals.

Loss of the Memory Warehouse

2016

Bethlehem, Pennsylvania

1997-2016


 

Peripheral Visions

2004-2005

Pe*riph"er*al  Vi"sions: Side vision. The ability to see objects and movement outside of the direct line of vision. Peripheral vision is the work of the rods, nerve cells located largely outside the macula (the center) of the retina. The rods are also responsible for night vision and low-light vision but are insensitive to color. As opposed to central vision.

I try to portray the landscape as I observe it within the moment that I am first discovering the subtleness of the area. We choose our experiences in life, and I am only trying to portray those experiences I have chosen, with an audience. I choose a part of the landscape that I have experienced and try to express what I felt was most influential about that particular scene.

 

Four Corners

1999-2004

Los Alamos Portraits

2000


Fake News: A Historical Archive of the Donald J. Trump Presidency

2016-2021

Mission Clay’s Remains

2008