A visual journal of public life — ritual, persona and memory in New York and elsewhere.
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Phnom Penh: Within the Wats
Returning to Phnom Penh’s monasteries years after living in the city, I photographed the daily rhythms and relationships that came into focus through repeated visits.
Phnom Penh: The Waterline
Along the Tonle Sap below Phnom Penh’s riverfront promenade, swimmers, fishers and children occupy the rough threshold between city and water.
Melbourne, Again
An ongoing street study of Melbourne, photographed during yearly returns to home after moving to New York City.
The Notebook
The Notebook observes people writing in public and the private interior held by the page, where memory, unfinished thought and absence meet.
The Subject at Hand
A photographic study of hands that emerge from the background of street scenes and become the subject through repetition, attention and sequencing.
Oral Fixation
A photographic study of people of all ages touching their mouths, tracing a small, often unconscious gesture repeated across public life.
Tokyo After Dark
Tokyo night photography exploring intimacy, labor, performance and anonymity across the city’s after-dark districts.
Free Luigi Mangione
Luigi Mangione’s federal arraignment, capturing supporters, critics, costumes, protests, and media spectacle outside court as the high-profile case evolves toward trial.
Fleet Week: A Maritime Tradition
How military service members navigate between institutional authority and personal freedom during their temporary immersion in New York City's civilian life.
Pride in Washington Square Park
The intersection of celebration and activism, exploring how expressions of identity transform within increasingly liberal and commercialized spaces.
September 11, New York
Photographs of the September 11 anniversary in New York, shaped by my memories of watching the attacks on television in Australia.
Sean ‘P Diddy’ Combs Trial
An exploration of the modern media circus surrounding celebrity trials, where live streamers and influencers jostled alongside legacy news.
Writing
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Lisette Model and the Cruelty of the Frame
Lisette Model's close, abrasive photographs made bodies feel impossible to evade. Her long-shelved jazz project reveals that the familiar “cruel camera” was only one part of the work—and that an artist's reputation can itself become a crop.
The Myth of Objectivity: How Press Photography Produces Reality
A photograph can be factually authentic and still organize the world through captions, crops, assignments and repetition. Objectivity becomes credible only when journalism accounts for the decisions that turn an encounter into evidence and evidence into social identity.
How Photography Became Art—and Who Got to Decide
The camera made authorship difficult to see. Courts, critics and museums responded by treating pose, timing, printing and selection as evidence of an artist. Their answer admitted photography into art while leaving most ordinary photographs outside the story.