These photos were taken on a year long journey from Florida to the Arctic Ocean, traveling to create a series of images about ruggedness, wildness, and the relentless pursuit of beauty at all costs.

Iceland is a place where magic exists. Amidst violent winds and unpredictable weather, there is peace to be found in the landscape and serenity that blossoms out of the chaos.

The whole story: It was a ten year dream to take photos on this island. I first read the book ‘Cloud Atlas’ in 2012 and was absolutely captivated by the themes of connection, karma, and the way our choices ripple through time in ways we could never imagine. “From womb to tomb, we are bound to others... past, and present. And by each crime... and every kindness... we birth our future.” I believe lines such as this one fundamentally changed the course of my life, the way I think about art, and the way I try to impact other people. I had only just graduated from highschool at the time, but I was beginning my photography journey with a hand me down camera and a dream to make art that mattered. One of the lines written in a letter between two of the book’s main characters, the lovers Sixsmith and Frobisher, reads in a time of immense peril: “Find me under the Corsican stars, where we first kissed.” The idea of two people so filled with magic and so deeply in love that their bond would echo through eternity, and the thought that their connection started on one tiny little French island stuck with me ever since. I thought that if two people, even fictional, could be so inspired by a place then I had to see it for myself. I was determined to someday be able to make art from this little island. Ten years later, last summer in 2022, I finally did.

Throughout the Yucatán, you can find portals to another world. An ancient, powerful world of spirits and gods clashing with ego and mortality. In the dense jungles of Mexico, we bashed through the trees in jeeps to find the perfect cenote, cave, forest or river that might help tell the story of how it feels to travel in such a unique part of the world.

Alaska’s rugged wilderness. One of the last truly wild places in the United States, this place offers every opportunity to find something new to explore.

The mood, the fog, the rain and the slivers of sunlight through the clouds make the Oregon coast one of the most fairytale like places in North America.

The martian landscape of the American southwest comes alive when faced with harsh weather conditions. Baby blue skies don’t reveal the true drama that hides in this desert.

New England offers some of the most breathtaking fall foliage in the United States. These photos were taken on a quiet, inquisitive journey through the backroads of the northeast, hoping to find fall as more of a feeling than a season.

The jagged, glacier-cut mountains of the northern USA in all their glory, demanding the respect of mountaineers around the world, and becoming a playground for photographers to realize just how little can be captured in a lens.

Shrouded in legends and history, Norway is a land that deserves the stoic strength of the Vikings. It is humbling to be among these ancient mountains and valleys.

A series of 35mm film photos taken in London over 5 months. The idea was to create a feeling of nostalgia and individuality in the rush of the streets. I tried to pick out intimate moments amidst the chaos of this goliath city. I’ve always associated film photography with a “slower time” before the distractions of the modern world— a fantasy that I was not even alive to experience myself. So in this project, I took a Minolta 9000 and tried to show how special these tiny interactions can be if we’d only slow down to appreciate them.

Midsommar as a collection is about relearning how to feel pain. suffering is part of the human experience, but so much of the way we suffer is learned, self-inflicted, or repeated trauma. the “rebirth of pain” mentioned in my series is about finding a new season of feeling.

this doesn’t mean an absence of suffering, but instead learning to experience it as a new season each time— one that will melt away when your summer comes. renewal isn’t about erasing, it’s about being gentle with yourself again as if experiencing emotions for the first time.

the way that ‘Midsommar’ invites you to step into someone else’s dreams, to see their memories as your own, like events that could have happened but you can’t tell who they happened to… this is the way to view our old selves. over and over again, we are made new in our minds.