I’m a photographer based in West Michigan whose work explores time, change, and the ways people shape the places around them. My photographs often focus on landscapes, industrial environments, agriculture, infrastructure, and development, with an interest in how those subjects reveal the passage of time and the traces people leave behind.
I approach photography as a way of observing how people use, alter, organize, and move through the environments they inhabit. Much of my work centers on transition: what is disappearing, what is being built, what remains, and what those changes reveal about a place over time.
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