CIVILIANS:
WAR IS THE INFRASTRUCTURE
This project begins in the heart of Kyiv, placing the viewer inside the Ukrainian capital where war has become the infrastructure. Streets function as staging grounds, shelters as living rooms, and cell phones as threat maps revealing not simply a location, but a condition in which military power occupies civilian space and survival is routine.
From this center, the photographs radiate outward across Ukraine to show how that armed conflict reshapes people and movement. Funerals, damaged buildings, shelters, checkpoints, and refugee routes trace the human cost of sustained attack, demonstrating that modern war is not a distant front line but rather it moves asymmetrically, redefining what it means to be a civilian.
Invasion Zone
Medellin, Colombia
Invasion Zone documents life shaped by displacement after collapse crosses borders. The work focuses on Venezuelan migrants living in Medellín, where national failure does not end with departure but reorganizes daily existence elsewhere.
These photographs are made inside barrios formed by necessity rather than planning. Housing, work and movement are informal, unstable and improvised. Survival depends on informal economies: transportation, caregiving, street work and sex work.
The New America:
Portrait of a Movement
This series of photographs document the atmosphere, symbols, and emotional intensity surrounding a presidential rally. The images observe how political belief becomes physical. Expressed through posture, clothing, gestures, and the shared language of crowd behavior.
Beyond the stage, the rally functions as a site of identity formation. Individual faces dissolve into collective expression, where loyalty, grievance, patriotism, and defiance coexist in the same frame.
Jacksonville:
POOR BUT SEXY
“Poor but Sexy” is the unofficial motto of Jacksonville, Florida. This two year portrait project captures Jacksonville at its edges, where poverty and southern desire coexist. The photographs reveal raw beauty in sweat, posture, and survival.
Over the course of two years, this project developed through repeated encounters and sustained observation, allowing trust and familiarity to shape each frame. The portraits are not fleeting impressions, but deliberate studies of presence, documenting the people of Jacksonville with time, patience, and proximity.
This is Israel:
Life After Oct. 7
On October 7, coordinated attacks by Hamas militants left Israeli communities shattered, families grieving, and the country abruptly thrust into war. The rupture was immediate and national, altering the rhythm of daily life across cities, kibbutzim, and borders. Old fault lines resurfaced even as new realities took shape.
This gallery follows what came next. Mourning moves alongside mobilization; ancient prayer and ritual unfold beside farming, reconstruction, military service, and technological acceleration. In these photographs, tradition and innovation operate together, shaping a country that rebuilds its infrastructure while forging a more advanced and resilient future.
Female Maverick:
The Cost of Becoming
This series follows a woman at the beginning of U.S. Navy officer training as she steps into the disciplined routine required to become an elite naval aviator. Exercise, academic precision, and constant evaluation shape daily life, demanding endurance and focus that extend far beyond the cockpit.
The pursuit carries visible and invisible costs. Beauty and personal expression are set aside as her body and mind are reshaped to meet standards long designed around men, and uniforms become camouflage rather than identity. In the process of becoming, ambition is measured not only by achievement, but by what must be surrendered to belong.
Love & Other Drugs
This is a private body of work.
Love, chemical escape, music, and art collide in rooms where the night stretches longer than intention. Bodies are unguarded, sound is physical, and desire moves faster than consequence.
Love and Other Drugs is not spectacle; it is proximity. It documents the search for connection inside pleasure, performance, and excess, where rebellion and vulnerability share the same frame. Access is limited not because it is scandalous, but because intimacy deserves discretion.
Kherson to Kent:
Rescue to Resettlement
For his family, he is the first to earn a high school diploma. A milestone achieved after fleeing occupied Kherson, Ukraine, moving through checkpoints and temporary refuge across Europe, and beginning again in the American Midwest.
His graduation in Kent, Ohio marks more than academic success. It confirms that rescue extended beyond physical safety into opportunity, into classrooms, friendships, and long-term plans. For families displaced by war, the dream is often simple: safety, work, education, and time. In this frame, those ambitions are no longer theoretical. They are visible, measurable, and earned.
The Pandemic:
Digital Humanity
It began with the mask, a visible marker of separation. What followed was deeper and more permanent. The pandemic accelerated a migration toward digital life, pushing work, education, entertainment, and even intimacy onto screens. Physical presence became conditional, and society recalibrated in real time, negotiating trust, authority, and proximity in an environment defined by distance.
Beneath the surface, it was a tale of modern survival. Not only of bodies, but of systems. A turning point where isolation became infrastructure, and the internet ceased to be a supplement to life and became its primary arena.
