Nocturnal Oases

Nocturnal Oases is a photographic series that is focused on the suburban landscape. Throughout the series a voyeuristic, juxtaposed internal and external perspective of the residential landscape is explored. The use of artificial light radiating from within the home conveys the feeling of presence; a presence of anonymous neighbors and nearby individuals who hold a shared existence. Light sources define and personify existence within these commonly familiar spaces—both from within and without. The electrically stimulated landscape of privately owned residencies emerges from the night, showing the presence of the anonymous lives of those who exist around each other. 

When night falls those who take themselves out of the suburban landscape during the day return to their homes;  individualized, ideal environments where daytime priorities become secondary. Here in their personal surroundings residents experience a shift as day turns into night—external eyes fall away and people are allowed to be more truly themselves; a more accurate and humanized version of whom we hope to be as people. Within these private places an intimate connection can be found between photographer and the anonymous homeowner. Exploiting/Observing these residencies in their shared landscape speaks of the outside world but also of our existence, the mysterious possibilities of the night and connectivity it affords. 

Family Matters

Happening Spots

“Progredi” is an ongoing photographic study of the constructed, integral infrastructure systems. When looking at the places we reside in, travel through and arrive at we are always in constant contact with infrastructure; the systems we made for ourselves in an attempt to streamline progress. This project investigates these places we briefly pass through, the framework of modern life we rely upon each day, and the topographical changes made out of necessity in order to enact a more efficient existence and way of living.

 Through multiple platforms of photography and image production these ideas of infrastructure and progress are conceptually explored with traditional photography methods as well as contemporary and more widely used mobile techniques. The use of the convenient and accessible mobile devices has allowed infrastructure to become something we incorporate into our own being; something so commonplace that it’s difficult to function in life today without one of your own. By using this personal mobile technology for photographing the very same infrastructure that lead to its creation and continued use, I am consciously layering multiple facets of infrastructure and progress to describe our existence on this planet.  

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Progredi is the latin origin of the word “progress” or “stepping forward” — using this form of language to define the project I am referencing yet another form of infrastructure that we heavily rely on—language. This is a form of technology that has been taken for granted, as it’s been gradually changed over thousands of years, evolving and developing into multiple languages and dialects. Some of which are lost, while some survive largely unchanged, or as fragments and are still used to this day as an infrastructure for our ideas.

Informal Portraits