Founded in the late 17th century and rebuilt in the 1800s, Tumacácori was part of a chain of Spanish colonial missions meant to anchor empire at the northern edge of New Spain. Unlike its better-known counterpart farther north, this mission did not survive intact. Roofs collapsed. Interiors were exposed. The building yielded slowly to weather, abandonment, and time.

Out here, stories don’t live in the cloud -they live in stones Here in a remote part of the Southwest, the stones hold a library of memories and messages from the past. People returned here for generations—leaving marks and meaning… proof that they were here.
An archive that needs no power only the sun to see it.

In the Sonoran Desert, I used a 175-year-old photographic process—wet plate collodion tintypes—to make handmade portraits of saguaro cacti, some of which have been standing here for more than 200 years. This is a behind-the-scenes record of the shoot: the setup, the timing, and the desert conditions that shape every plate.

The "Bathtub Ring" of Lake Mead is a white mineral scar marking a countdown. It is a record of what happens when the demands of the modern world outpace the resources of the natural one.

For my latest project, I went to the receding shoreline with a Large Format camera and a specific goal: I didn't want to just photograph the crisis. I wanted the lake to be the literal medium of the work. I came to make one honest image—an artifact of what it felt like to stand here at this point in time.

Trona Pinnacles is an ancient, dry and desolate place in the Californian Desert. It is a unique feature that is home to tufa spires that populate the landscape. These spires are all different and interesting shapes with great shadow and texture. It is one of those otherworldly places that is surreal and makes it an ideal landscape to capture using the wet plate collodion process.