Fotofocus 2026 Biennial

12 new works from my project-in-progress can be seen at Cincinnati’s 2026 Fotofocus Biennial. The work consists of 12 silver-gelatin, split-toned prints from large-format negatives made during the last 4 years of work wandering the Little Miami River in Ohio. Please join me October 17 at 6pm an artist talk and opening at the Fitton Center for Creative Arts in Hamilton, Ohio. Info here.

After a Painted River is a meditation on the Little Miami River, a landscape I have wandered for much of my life. Through sauntering and sustained observation, the work considers what places carry forward from those who came before and what changes through time, use, and experience. It brings the present landscape into dialogue with African American painter Robert S. Duncanson, whose nineteenth-century paintings of the same place serve as a key inspiration. These photographs ask whether reverential attention to a place and its people can reveal something beyond description, something resembling a recognition of gratitude and hope.