Photography & Visual Art

Art Projects

Work made in the spaces between teaching, travel, and looking more carefully at the world.

I came to photography seriously after years of pointing a phone camera at mountains and wishing the images looked the way the place felt. These projects are the result of learning to close that gap — one course, one shoot, one decision at a time.

The work here is organized by project. Each series has its own page with photographs, captions, and an artist statement. More projects will be added as they are completed.

Mumbai harbor at sunrise — first image from Two Places at Once

AVT 253  ·  2026

Two Places at Once

Six photographs tracing the arc from immersion to departure to return — and the strange lag that travel leaves behind. Mumbai · Harpers Ferry · Loudoun County · Fairfax.
Illuminated mosque tower above the crowd on Mohammed Ali Road — The Hour of Breaking

AVT 253  ·  2026

The Hour of Breaking

Five photographs from a single evening on Mohammed Ali Road during Ramadan — tracing the rhythm of iftar from quiet preparation to full release. Mumbai.
“To photograph is to appropriate the thing photographed. It means putting oneself into a certain relation to the world that feels like knowledge — and, therefore, like power.”
— Susan Sontag