As a photographer I have always been fascinated by the idea of the abandoned; of walking into a space unseen for decades of time and capturing an image that brings life back into something that has long been forgotten. Through photography, I play with storytelling; I investigate the history of each building I find, and the individuals who once inhabited these spaces. I find that every structure I explore has a hidden story to tell, unique to each space. Whether it is a hospital whose patients underwent years of torture in the name of medical advancements, a factory whose workers were sent home never to return, or a family whose belongings remain scattered across the floor of a decaying house, every space has its own forgotten history.

   It is my goal not only to document these spaces, but also to create within them an environment contrasting to their current state of distress. By incorporating installation and portraiture, I enjoy inventing impossible scenarios and testing the viewer’s sense of truth. My characters exist in their own private world, separate from reason and reality. By capturing a vacant housewife, happy to partake in her domestic duties amidst the crumbling walls of her home, a birthday girl naïve to the stigma of her insanity, and the bird caged in a false paradise, I am attempting to turn a decaying house into a home, a life of institution into a celebration, and solitary confinement into an everlasting wonderland.

   Scattered across the country lie the ruins of structures once bustling with life and energy, which now lie dormant, blemishing the landscape, and silently awaiting their day of demolition. These spaces lay document to changes in history, technology, and economy. Once imprisoning or imposing forces, these structures now stand victim to the effects of time, vulnerable to conditions of the environment, and untouched by human hands.