When I picked up a digital camera for the first time in 2008, I had no idea where my life was about to take me, that I would soon leave Los Angeles, where I was born and raised, for the desert and that the desert, in turn, would lead me to a tiny village in the mountains not far from Palm Springs.
Photography, specifically the self-imposed discipline of the daily photoblog I launched around that time, would turn out to be my saving grace during an otherwise difficult time. I began exploring my new surroundings through the lens of a secondhand DSLR and, in the process, developed a deep appreciation for the subtle beauty of the desert as well as an intense fascination with its abandoned and most desolate places.
I returned to Los Angeles in early 2020, just as the world was closing down in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Since then, I’ve had the pleasure of rediscovering my hometown on countless photowalks. As a result, my images have become increasingly abstract while also reflecting a growing fascination with architecture; light and shadow; and the details, lines, and patterns that can be found in urban environments.