Topography

November 2022 - present

Topography is a series of documentary photographs that examines American landscapes—urban and rural—as surfaces shaped by human intervention. Though devoid of people, each image bears the traces of occupation and abandonment: structures, signage, roads, and terrain that quietly register the impressions we leave on our environment. Like stage sets after a performance has concluded, the images still have a rich narrative quality, foregrounding the stories embedded in the constructed spaces we inhabit. The ongoing series considers topography as a record of cultural values, systems, and behaviors, inviting viewers to read the landscape not as neutral scenery, but as a living product of human intervention, that mirrors the changes in society, and imparts revealing stories of our lives—even in our absence.