I make photographs about memory, place, endurance, and the quiet things that remain.

My work is rooted in the Missouri Ozarks and shaped by time spent in the field, behind a large-format camera, and in the darkroom. I am interested in photographs that become more than images—physical objects that hold memory, history, presence, and a sense of place.

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Pictorial Whispers

Handmade silver gelatin paper negatives and large-format contact prints exploring grief, memory, absence, endurance, and renewal.

Pictorial Whispers is my most personal body of work. Using flowers, window light, weathered surfaces, old glass, soft-focus lenses, and quiet space, I create photographs that give physical form to things that are often difficult to express directly.

Each image begins as an 8×10 silver gelatin fiber paper negative and is contact printed by hand onto silver gelatin fiber paper. The finished print is then individually bleached and redeveloped through my variable thiocarbimide sepia process.

The photographs are slow, intimate objects shaped by light, silver, paper, chemistry, memory, and time.

Wild Horses of Missouri

Long-term fieldwork documenting the wild horses of the Missouri Ozarks and their lives within the Ozark National Scenic Riverways.

I spend many mornings in the field quietly observing and photographing these horses as they move through the forests, rivers, fields, and changing seasons of the Ozarks.

The work is about more than individual photographs. It is an ongoing record of the horses themselves—their bands, relationships, foals, losses, movements, and connection to the landscape they inhabit.

Historic Mills of the Ozarks

Large-format photographs of historic mills, landscapes, and traces of human history throughout the Ozarks.

These old mills are more than surviving buildings. They are physical connections to the people, communities, waterways, and working landscapes that shaped the Ozarks.

I photograph them slowly with a large-format camera, paying attention not only to the structures themselves, but also to the surrounding land, water, trees, stone, and evidence of time.

The goal is to create a lasting photographic record of these places while they still remain.

Learn Traditional Photography

Alongside my personal photographic work, I share what I have learned through years of working with large-format photography, paper negatives, darkroom printing, historic processes, and handmade photographs.

You can explore my photography courses, books, technical resources, and Darkroom Diary Premium, where I share detailed working notes, experiments, printing methods, and what I am learning as the work develops.