A Captain's Duty, 2025
Case, 2025
Chimera, 2025
Nevil, 2025
Roll, 2025
Antler Playing Basketball, 2025
Dustan, 2025
Lewis, 2025
Cypress and Dino, 2025
Loft, 2025
Medusa, 2025
Sitting Bull, 2025
Statement on Devil Stories:
These images are a product of storytelling. In order to create captivating images, I want to explore something that captivates me as an audience member. I set out to follow yarns, legends, folktales, rhymes, jokes, and dreams to wherever they may lead me and my camera. I found myself exploring abandoned barns, workshops, and studios; visiting basements, living rooms, mysterious holes, empty woods, summer camps, bathrooms, and libraries following threads and details of stories. These images evoke the themes of these stories, and engage the viewer in my explorations in the name of a narrative.
My goal is to give an artistic and exploratory view of how we tell stories, both directly and indirectly. Some images in this collection are more documentary, retelling found stories. Namely, I do this through capturing an environment. In other images however, I have taken control as the storyteller. In both cases I offer evidence and clues for the viewer to construct. To augment this process, I sometimes include text alongside the image.
I was drawn mostly to somewhat antiquated male stories - those which have a codified and moralistic masculine theming. I’m interested in re-examining the fiction these stories present. I often make connections to these myths and their themes - cowboys and indians, devils and bogeymen, sailors and blacksmiths. By playing with these themes alongside those of facsimile, humor, and beauty, I create a not-quite-nostalgic atmosphere. Furthermore, it engages in a tradition of storytelling, but does so in a way that turns a critical or sometimes dismissive eye towards the stories being told and the social and moral messages they carry. I also am self aware, and acknowledge my role as photographer and storyteller in these images.