Long-Form Narratives
Taking The Waters
Humans have gathered at thermal waters for as long as we have recorded ourselves gathering anywhere. This project explores why.
Taking the Waters began with childhood memories of family reunions at a hot springs resort in Utah, but has grown into a broader inquiry into a ritual that spans cultures, geographies, and generations. Through the people who seek these places, the communities that form around them, and the vernacular spaces that have endured boom, bust, and quiet resurgence, I’m asking: What draws us here? What are we seeking when we take the waters? Healing, community, ritual or relief from something we can’t name.
Generational Mining
Generational Mining is a personal and place-based documentary project exploring the legacy of mining in the American West. It began with a move to Montana, my grandfather's 1912 camera, and a quiet pull toward landscapes shaped by immigration, extraction and inheritance.
My grandfather was a coal miner in the pre-WWII boom, and carrying his camera has become a way to trace connections between past and present. As I document company towns and scarred hillsides, questions emerge: How do these landscapes continue to shape the lives still unfolding in the shadows of extraction? What does it mean to inherit both the tools and the weight of this history?