In the early and mid 2010s and I traveled extensively around the United States with a Canon 5d Mark II and took many portraits of Americans. It was an education of sorts and I had many conversations along the way. I would sometimes seek out marginal and countercultural groups. us is also from this period and there are many unedited images in my archives as well. I have ambivalent feelings about this kind of practice and moved away from it towards other kinds of image and archive making, though the experience was educational and I imagine the work could be interesting to different people and in different times. If you click an image it will open up a larger version and a slideshow navigation.

Ironhorse

I visited a small neighborhood museum about Mardi Gras Indian culture in New Orleans in 2013 and arrived as the proprietor was closing for the day. He invited me to a funeral for chief Cyril ‘Ironhorse’ Green.

Moore

I was driving down Route 66 in 2013 when an EF5 tornado hit Moore, Oklahoma 100 miles away. I went the following morning and made these images of the damage