• SANCTUARY

    Telling the stories of rescued farm animals at sanctuaries around the country

  • HOME/LAND

    Interpreting the small, remote valley where my family comes from, mixing coal miners, old Pennsylvania Dutch, Amish, and newcomers looking for organic farms all blending together.

  • SLAVE DWELLINGS

    Former slave dwellings photographed with an 8x16" film camera. Silver gelatin photographs with toners and bleaches painted on to visually communicate the sense of fading away of the structures. The large 52”x32” photographs were printed using a special extra large enlarger I built to accommodate the large film negatives.

  • H2-A

    Thisis from a series of portraits I’ve taken over the past few years in the apple orchards of Pennsylvania. These are seasonal fruit pickers from Mexico and South America here on H-2A visas, a way of life for both the workers and the American orchard owners which may now change.

    The workers are in the US on special H-2A visas which have strict requirements: only specific labor can be done and the jobs have to be offered to American citizens first. Once the job and season is finished the workers must return to their country. They are paid per pound and the pay is high if the picker can total over 10,000 pounds of apples per day. Many return to the farms each year during harvest season

  • HARD COAL

    Coal mining was an alien world when I started photographing the tiny ramshackle mines near my Pennsylvania hometown. It took many friend-of-a-friend meetings and trips out to meet mine crews to gain entry to this close-knit society. What I assumed were tough jobs of economic necessity revealed themselves as an intricate brotherhood going back generations, and deeply woven into the community. This has become an ongoing project for me as I document an industry which has become controversial and the people whose ties to it go beyond a paycheck