Over the past two decades, my work has focused on the landscape of the American west. I am interested in the individual perceptual experience of landscape, and in how we collectively understand ourselves as a part of the natural world. My images are rooted in my emotional and perceptual response to specific places. I use a variety of strategies for digital alteration to reflect the transformative complexities that cognition, memory, and the awareness of human impact on the natural world have on the experience of place.

I am a 2023 Guggenheim Fellow in photography. A monograph of my work, Signal Noise, was published by Radius books in 2018. Exhibitions of my work include shows at the Cleveland Museum of Art at Transformer Station, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the University of Virginia, the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, the Cheekwood Museum of Art in Nashville, Phoenix Art Museum, and Rick Wester Fine Art and Gitterman Gallery in New York.

My work is represented by Rick Wester Fine Art, in New York.

In addition to studio work, I have written on art and photography about on landscape, architecture and urbanism. My writings have been published in Places Journal, Photo-Eye Magazine and The Caravan.

I have an MFA from Arizona State University and a BA from Grinnell College. I have taught photography at Arizona State University and the Memphis College of Art.

I live in Phoenix, Arizona.

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