(untitled sunspots)

I began seeking daylight – and making these images – during the early day of 2020 as the world pressed pause, but it took a long while what these images meant and how they should look. On the surface, they felt completely foreign as representational photographs, but as I continued making them, I began to understand more about our innate primal urges to seek out light – the building blocks of photography – in all its forms.

The more I seek out sunlight, the more essential these images feel as a primal codex to my practice. Our precarious dance between natural light and artificial illumination is more of a blurred artifice than ever before, yet I continuously find streaks of natural light overpowering even the brightest Hollywood spotlights.

Even filtered through intentional architecture built to contain, natural light finds a way to announce its presence and remind us of the elemental foundations of photography.