PORTRAITS

Although I tend to photograph intimate natural landscapes, I've encountered and been aesthetically drawn to many individuals throughout my travels. I'm compelled to photograph them not exactly because they appear odd or explicitly different from what I'm used to in daily life, but because they are lost in thought, somehow absent from the space in which I witness them and inhabiting an other, more interior or subterranean world. You might find that these portrait photographs tend to be from my travels in Ireland more so than elsewhere, perhaps because of Ireland's famously rich plethora of fascinating, eclectic characters. It is, after all, the homeland of radically innovative—and, if I may, quite quirky— writers such as W.B. Yeats, James Joyce, Elizabeth Bowen, Oscar Wilde, Samuel Beckett, and Flann O'Brien, among many others. I hope you enjoy these portraits. Rather than capturing an exterior landscape, these images represent my desire to explore a more interiorized, enigmatically hidden, perhaps even unconscious form of landscape.