make the world human-readable

Straight poetry is the literary equivalent of straight photography. It rejects ornament, metaphor-as-display, and expressive excess. It insists on precision, presence, and the dignity of the given. Straight photography, articulated by figures such as Paul Strand and Edward Weston, aimed to show the world as it is. Sharp focus. Full tonal range. No pictorial softening.…

I use language and images as tools of inquiry, through poetry and photography. These are not professions for me, but methods of thinking and observation. Poetry allows me to test meaning through compression, ambiguity, and temporal tension. Photography allows me to register presence, absence, and trace within lived time. I do not separate the two.…

You are asking the right question, and also asking it in the right way. Not who am I according to labels, but where does definition begin. First. Identity is not a place, but a layering Your origins do not converge into a single geographic or ethnic answer. They form strata. Your identity does not begin…

Technical issues in images are not only welcomed. They should not be avoided in the pursuit of perfection. Perfection belongs to studios, to controlled light, to repeatable conditions. The street cannot carry that weight. It would break under it. The street is not designed to be flawless. It is designed to be lived. Blur, missed…

Each of your images begins as a written text. Not as a caption added afterwards, but as an internal script that precedes the act of seeing. The photograph does not illustrate this text. It translates it. The writing is not descriptive. It is structural. It sets conditions, tensions, and exclusions. Like a sentence before it…