I am a photographer and designer based in Houston, Texas, originally from Raleigh, North Carolina. My work is shaped by more than two decades living and working across Asia, particularly in South Korea and China, where I developed a long-term engagement with the built environment and everyday visual culture.
My photography focuses on aging urban neighborhoods in Shanghai, Beijing, and across Southeast Asia, spaces that exist in a state of gradual disappearance. I am drawn to quiet details: weathered doors, worn facades, improvised repairs, and the subtle traces of daily life embedded in architecture. These elements reflect not only physical change, but the layered histories and identities of the communities they belong to.
Alongside my photographic practice, my background in graphic design and communications has centered on translating complex ideas into clear visual form. This experience informs how I approach image-making, through structure, composition, and an attention to how viewers navigate and interpret visual space.
Having spent much of my adult life outside the United States, I continue to return to these regions with a sense of both familiarity and distance. Now based in Houston, I remain committed to documenting environments undergoing rapid transformation, creating work that reflects on memory, impermanence, and the evolving relationship between people and place.
My work exists as both observation and record, an effort to preserve what is often overlooked, before it disappears.