paint + time

gorgeously time-decayed industrial paintscapes, east coast USA

the occupied new school

in november of 2011 a contingent of militant students briefly occupied a study space at the New York New School, expressing all manner of political opinions with exuberant splashes of graffiti. the students were violently opposed to photography in the space but facing the likelihood of immanent eviction finally consented to my request to document the art eruption minus any ...

france

bilston glen

late summer 2010 : i visited edinburgh, scotland intending to stay a few days only. via couschsurfing.com i discovered a place in the forest just south of the city where a constantly shifting mix of european eco-activists, international backpackers, and british misfits live in a treehouse village, subsisting on the city’s luxuriously discarded excess. 8 years ...

UK climate camp 2010 vs RBS

late summer 2010 i ended up attending the uk climate camp 2010 direct occupation / action against the royal bank of scotland’s headquarters outside edinburgh. the action was intended to aggressively protest and publicize RBS’s deeply irresponsible investments in the canadian tar sands oil extraction project, one of earth’s biggest currently unfolding environmental disasters. several ...

portugal

guatemala

nicaragua

mexico

japan

summer 2005 – summer 2007 i lived and worked in japan, first in osaka and then in the fishing village of hososhima on kyushu island, altogether surely one of the more rewarding experiences of my life thus far. here are some images captured during that time.

hong kong

maya

in 2004 i was the fortunate recipient of PSU architecture department’s annual travel grant, having proposed to visit central america to get acquainted with the epic ruins of fallen empires on our southern doorstep. i visited 19 different archeological sites in an attempt to broadly survey and document diverse styles and developmental periods of mayan ...