Photography
Souls on the Streets
Starting in 2011, I began to take street portraits of people all over the northern hemisphere, over three thousand, five hundred portraits in total and always growing. Please feel free to use this portal to see how that work has progressed during those years. I’m still adding hundreds of portraits every year.
Southwest United States
2018-2024
In 2018, I quit my day job (or they quit me) and I piled clothes and all my photo gear and took off for the southwestern part of the United States and Northern Mexico to explore the people of that area, spending almost four months in the border towns along the US/Mexico border, making photographs and recording stories of the people who lived there. I returned for four months in the winter of 2022 to spend more time in Texas, New Mexico, Juarez, Arizona and Southern Colorado documenting in photos and words the people who I met along my journey.
Rural Jamaica
In 2019, I spent almost three weeks in one of the remotest parts of Jamaica, in a small fishing village hours away from Negril. This was one of the poorest areas in Jamaica, where the barter system is still widely used for food and other services. Some catch fish, some raise chickens and eggs, some milk goats and cows, many have large vegetable gardens where they provide produce year round for consumption and trade. Many have never had a portrait of themselves, so after I took their portraits, I sent them back all framed copies of their portraits to hang on the wall of their shacks. Many of the people who live in the village had grandparents of great-grandparents who were slaves on the very same land they live on now. When the British outlawed slavery, many plantations were divided up so that each freed slave would get a one to three acre plot of land to live on. The now freed slaves built shanties and stucco and tin homes and have lived there for decades, raised many families, and consider the village their birthright. Over these decades the citizens of that village have fought off every attempt made by foreign developers and land barons who wanted to build luxury all-inclusive resorts and poorly compensate the citizens who’d they kick off the land to build their resorts for European, American and Canadians who wanted to vacation there. Often, those foreign developers have tried to find enough local people to sell that everyone would have to settle for small amounts of money and leave their homeland. The people that I have photographed all resisted as one people, and for now the little village remains undeveloped by foreign interests and live a simple but happy existence in this idyllic place.
Badlands and the Black Hills
In late fall of 2024 I spent a week photographing the federal and state lands of the Badlands and the Black Hills to help people understand the beauty and wildness that still exists in South and North Dakota.
Ireland
Upon retiring from my day job on October 16th, 2024, I left and headed to Ireland for a month to visit with Irish photographers I have come to know through the internet. I spent weeks with them in their homes and they toured me around the entire country, from County Dingle to Belfast in Northern Ireland.
