Exacting Proportion is an attempt to document a view of the world that puts the scale of our communities in perspective. The images highlight our relationship with nature, and the modification of land into the built environment by reminding the viewer of the immense sky and carefully putting the scale of various communities out of proportion with the horizon. In this way, it also points out the environmental and cultural similarities between all of us, while also taking delight in the colorful differences.

I love cars and I love Los Angeles for being a city of cars. Over the last decade or so, I have been intrigued by LA's love affair with the automobile, tracing back to a time when cars themselves were objects of beauty. Those cars are no longer on the streets today but the buildings from that era remain. My interest in this story is primarily about this car culture's manifestation within the city's built environment, where there was once a time when the car and the act of driving was celebrated, and these streets once allowed a unified mental image of an urban texture to be retained - a sense which is now improbable and destroyed by freeway architecture, which has reduced entire communities to a name on the exit sign. I wanted to connect with that lost design history and capture LA's car-culture-induced optimism and ambition reflected in polychromatic, star-spangled coffee shops, gas stations, car washes, and others that once lured the gaze of passing motorists. This series was published as a book in 2020. For more information and signed copies, please visit https://gasandglamour.com

South of the Convergence is my interpretation of the fragility of the continent of Antarctica observed at its fringes. These images were made in a region known as the Antarctic Convergence where the Southern Ocean encircling Antarctica meets the warmer waters to the north. I photographed abstract views of icebergs from the top of an icebreaker ship which made me appreciate the natural beauty of this last untouched continent. With ocean temperatures on the rise, the fast-changing shapes and textures of ice on the ocean surface made me wonder about the impact of global climate change not only on Antarctica but also on a global scale, now that the melting of large sections of Antarctica's ice mass is already underway. Aside from the impact of climate change, I also began to ponder about the fate of The Antarctic Treaty that fully protects its environment today from commercial exploitation. However, in thirty years this treaty becomes modifiable, and the fate of a continent hangs in the balance.