Field & Archive Galleries
PHOTO: Looking across Freshwater Bay toward the mouth of the Elwha River, Washington.
These galleries bring together photographs from fieldwork and archival research, including c. 1930s images from the National Archives, Library of Congress, and other collections. Together, they reflect the same questions that guide my research: how landscapes change, how people document them, and what past records can reveal about the present.
Sawtooth Wilderness Area, 2013.
Into the Universe,
Through a Wilderness
Fieldwork & Landscape Observation
Fieldwork is where abstract ideas meet physical context. These photographs come from forests, deserts, dunes, coasts, mountains, rivers, and working landscapes in the U.S. and abroad — places where observation, movement, weather, landforms, and human history come together.
They are also a record of why I keep returning to the field: because understanding landscapes begins with attention, and nothing can replace being there.
Dallam County, Texas, 2018.
A Past Future
Archival photographs of the 1930s Dust Bowl
The 1930s Dust Bowl is seared into American memory, in part because of the extensive effort to document its effects on people, agriculture, and the Great Plains landscape. Thousands of photographs held by the National Archives, Library of Congress, and other collections preserve a visual record of life under extreme climate stress.
As drought risk intensifies in the 21st century, these images are more than historical artifacts. They are records of vulnerability, adaptation, land-use decisions, and environmental change — reminders that possible futures are often visible in the past.