I am chiefly interested in stories pertaining to the American cultural landscape and its (d)evolution over the past four-or-so decades. I am more fascinated by the country’s synthetic landscape than its natural one. Without gas stations, hotels, grocery stores, bay windows, corporate offices, advertising agencies, record shops, big empty baseball fields, shopping malls, elevator bays, high schools, and bars, my work could not exist. I want to explore and recreate the relationships people foster in these often callous, inhuman environments because I do not think such relationships can be found anywhere else in the world. An aside — my black and white photographic film stocks of choice are Ilford FP4 Plus and Pan F for their low speed and high contrast. I am partial to Fujifilm’s color negative offerings (including the now discontinued Pro 400H), though I will always opt for Kodak Ektachrome whenever possible. I believe the color response allows these quintessentially American spaces to come alive on screen.