TREES

This series began by photographing trees at night using flash. During the day, trees provide shade and protection, but at night, when their shadows disappear, that familiar function changes. The trees become isolated forms—almost sculptures—revealed against the darkness.

FIELD OF VIEW

Field of View is a photographic series developed in the border region between El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua. The project uses a physical frame placed within the landscape as a visual device, directing the viewer’s gaze while defining the composition of each photograph.

The photographs document specific elements of the border environment—an article of clothing caught in barbed wire, a cross in the desert, a surveillance balloon, and the border fence—photographed in their original surroundings and without direct intervention. These elements are selected for their relationship to the conditions and dynamics of the region, including movement, permanence, and the control of territory.

The objects and traces encountered in the photographs are not removed, repositioned, or altered. They are photographed where they are found, allowing them to remain part of the landscape from which they emerged. Rather than treating them as collected objects, the photographs present them as remnants connected to experiences of migration, displacement, and movement through the border landscape.

The frame becomes an external element within each scene, creating a distinction between what is contained within the image and what remains outside it. Repeated throughout the series, the frame establishes a consistent visual structure while allowing the elements within it to change. In some photographs, the frame interacts with the border fence, creating an overlap of structures that further fragments the viewer’s perception of the landscape.

Presented as a sequence of related images, the series brings together different situations and traces within the border environment. The repeated frame provides continuity from one photograph to the next, while the changing elements within it create variations in what is seen and how the landscape is experienced.

SCREEN SERIES

For this series I carry a window screen with me to take photos through the screen and create this painterly look on the photos. I focus on the screen, so the people or objects become out of focus. You can see a person but not clearly seeing their face and thus adding to the mood of the photograph. Sometimes the people are so out of focus that the image becomes a pattern of shapes and color.

PHOTOGRAMS

STREET MUSICIANS

LIGHT AND SHADOW

FROM MY WINDOW

BILATERAL COORDINATES