Visual Studies

Sustained visual investigations grouped around a theme, place, idea or motif.

Featured Studies

Labor & Leisure

Tokyo After Dark

Tokyo

Tokyo night photography exploring intimacy, labor, performance and anonymity across the city’s after-dark districts.

2018–2026  ·  61 images

Body & Gesture

Touch, posture, grooming and the ways bodies communicate in public space.

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Oral Fixation

Melbourne and New York City

A photographic study of people of all ages touching their mouths, tracing a small, often unconscious gesture repeated across public life.

2023–2025  ·  18 images

Myth, Symbol & Persona

Archetype, belief, masks and performed identity in public life.

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The Father

Melbourne, New York City, and Tokyo

A photographic study of how fatherhood becomes visible in public through carrying, protection, resemblance, discipline and control.

2022–2025  ·  16 images

Pattern & Perception

Repetition, doubling, symmetry and visual coincidence in the street.

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Public Ritual

Ceremony, celebration, costume and temporary collective formations.

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Fleet Week: A Maritime Tradition

How military service members navigate between institutional authority and personal freedom during their temporary immersion in New York City's civilian life.

2022–2026  ·  15 images

Pride in Washington Square Park

The intersection of celebration and activism, exploring how expressions of identity transform within increasingly liberal and commercialized spaces.

2023–2026  ·  32 images

Power & Spectacle

Authority, celebrity, media and the crowds that gather around them.

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Between Two Koreas: The DMZ

Paju

Photographs made along the Korean Demilitarized Zone in 2011. An examination of division, controlled access and the experience of looking across one of the world's most closely guarded borders.

2011  ·  5 images

Free Luigi Mangione

New York City

Luigi Mangione’s federal arraignment, capturing supporters, critics, costumes, protests, and media spectacle outside court as the high-profile case evolves toward trial.

2025  ·  10 images

Sean ‘P Diddy’ Combs Trial

An exploration of the modern media circus surrounding celebrity trials, where live streamers and influencers jostled alongside legacy news.

2025  ·  35 images

Signs, Gaze & Simulation

Advertising, screens, surveillance and the images that look back.

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The Picture Looks Back

Kyoto and New York City

Every subject returns the camera’s gaze, turning scrutiny back on the viewer and questioning how we judge vulnerability, privacy, dignity and agency.

2022–2026  ·  26 images

Nature & Control

Cultivated nature and the management of living things in built environments.

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Phnom Penh: The Waterline

Phnom Penh

Along the Tonle Sap below Phnom Penh’s riverfront promenade, swimmers, fishers and children occupy the rough threshold between city and water.

2026  ·  18 images

Planted Matter

New York City

A photographic study of plants moving through New York City, tracing how care, commerce, transport and abandonment shape nonhuman life in urban space.

2022–2025  ·  10 images

Time, Memory & Absence

Duration, erosion, disappearance and what remains visible of the past.

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Melbourne, Again

Melbourne

An ongoing street study of Melbourne, photographed during yearly returns to home after moving to New York City.

2023–2026  ·  42 images

The City Behind the Wall

New York City

The City Behind the Wall examines temporary urban barriers as accidental frames, revealing hidden layers of a city undergoing constant transformation.

2016–2026  ·  10 images

The Notebook

Melbourne

The Notebook observes people writing in public and the private interior held by the page, where memory, unfinished thought and absence meet.

2024  ·  4 images

September 11, New York

New York City

Photographs of the September 11 anniversary in New York, shaped by my memories of watching the attacks on television in Australia.

2015–2026  ·  22 images

Labor & Leisure

Work, rest, service and the economy of attention in public space.

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Sacred & Everyday

Religious practice, shared work and the ordinary routines through which sacred life is lived each day.

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Phnom Penh: Within the Wats

Phnom Penh

Returning to Phnom Penh’s monasteries years after living in the city, I photographed the daily rhythms and relationships that came into focus through repeated visits.

2017–2026  ·  41 images

Believe Me

Melbourne and New York City

A photographic study of certainty as public performance, where faith, fraud and persuasion compete for another person’s attention.

2023–2025  ·  9 images