This body of work approaches self-portraiture through absence and indirection. I’m almost never directly visible – appearing mostly as shadow, as back, as feet and lower legs seen from behind. Only one image shows my face.

The psychological portraits, in both color and black and white, favor my shadow as subject. These images explore interior states through what the body casts rather than what it reveals directly. The shadow becomes a psychological stand-in: mutable, dependent on light and surface, always tethered to the body but never quite the same as it.

In the explorer self-portraits, the camera sits on the ground behind my feet, pointing in the direction I’m facing. These images document my movement through urban and natural environments, treating the camera as a tool for exploration itself. The fragmentary view emphasizes the physical act of moving through space and the relationship between body and ground.

Across both approaches, I’m interested in what can be known about a person through oblique means: through shadow, through evidence of presence rather than presence itself.