A long-term street study of Times Square as an American dream factory, where global spectacle collides with labor, historical erasure and street-level desperation.
The project considers how American exceptionalism is converted into spectacle and circulated around the world. Times Square promises proximity to the center of culture, money and visibility. The photographs ask what happens when that promise is encountered from the pavement, and what kinds of labor, exclusion and desperation are required to keep the dream illuminated.
An ongoing street study of Melbourne, photographed during yearly returns to home after moving to New York City.
A close street study of maiko, geiko and everyday movement through Miyagawacho, one of Kyoto’s working hanamachi districts.
Along the Tonle Sap below Phnom Penh’s riverfront promenade, swimmers, fishers and children occupy the rough threshold between city and water.
Tokyo night photography exploring intimacy, labor, performance and anonymity across the city’s after-dark districts.
Fingernails as bodily edges where grooming, self-fashioning and social judgment meet.
The City Behind the Wall examines temporary urban barriers as accidental frames, revealing hidden layers of a city undergoing constant transformation.
