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.
Along the Tonle Sap below Phnom Penh’s riverfront promenade, swimmers, fishers and children occupy the rough threshold between city and water.
A close street study of maiko, geiko and everyday movement through Miyagawacho, one of Kyoto’s working hanamachi districts.
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.
Tokyo night photography exploring intimacy, labor, performance and anonymity across the city’s after-dark districts.
An ongoing street study of Melbourne, photographed during yearly returns to home after moving to New York City.
A photographic study of how fatherhood becomes visible in public through carrying, protection, resemblance, discipline and control.
