A POST-DOCUMENTARY ARCHIVE
SELECTED WORKS: A Study Of Derivative Topographics & Ecologies Of The Periphery
A STUDY OF DERIVATIVE TOPOGRAPHICS
Modern photography trains us to expect a single, decisive frame—a seamless, unified window that claims to capture the entirety of a moment. In an era where automation and algorithms increasingly hijack image-making, visual truth is packaged as something smooth, immediate, and effortless.
A Study of Derivative Topographics rejects this mechanical perfection in pursuit of a more honest, unfiltered interpretation of human perception.
The work carries the word derivative deliberately. Deadpan observation and typological topographics are long-established visual languages, not new inventions. Yet in a landscape saturated by automated, machine-generated imagery, these traditional frameworks become radical tools of organic resistance — reclaimed to preserve the flawed, deliberate, human hand in how we record the world.
We do not experience space, memory, or history as a clean, unbroken rectangle; we experience them in glances, pauses, and overlapping impressions. By fracturing landscapes, architecture, and human conflict into rigid grids and discontinuous mosaics, these works expose the true mechanics of seeing. Whether mapping the shifting flight of birds over Sardinian stone, dissecting the colonial and modernist stairwells of Mexico City, reassembling crime scenes or the ballistic geometry of war in Kyiv, and pairing small-town midwestern architecture with redacted archival records, the frame refuses to settle into an artificial vantage point.
Here, the grid is not a neat organizational tool, but an act of structural tension. Missing tiles, mismatched horizons, and recurring motifs force the eye to work across negative space, mimicking the way the human mind actually pieces together place, trauma, and evidence over time.
Rather than offering a passive, sanitized view of a subject, these topographies demand active assembly — requiring the viewer to confront the gaps between frames and witness how human perception constructs meaning from fragments.
THE AMERICAN SILENCE: A Study Of Derivative Topographics & Spree Homicide, 2024
24 Photographic prints on Hahnmühle Matte Photo Rag paper
Colby, Kansas, USA
Editions 1 of 1, collection of the artist
THE DEATH OF AIR: A Study Of Derivative Topographics & Double Homicide, 2023
Photographic print on Hahnmühle Matte Photo Rag paper
Canton, Illinois
Edition 1 of 1, collection of the artist
GIVE me SILENCE: A Study Of Derivative Topographics & Impending Doom, 2025
6 Photographic prints on Hahnmühle Matte Photo Rag paper
Central/Northern Guatemala
Editions 1 of 1, collection of the artist
THE GEOMETRY OF ISOLATION: A Study Of Derivative Topographics & Existential Dread, 2025
8 Photographic prints on Hahnmühle Matte Photo Rag paper
Iceland
Editions 1 of 1, collection of the artist
THE GEOMETRY OF ISOLATION No. 2: A Study Of Derivative Topographics & Existential Dread, 2025
Photographic print on Hahnmühle Matte Photo Rag paper
Eyrarbakki, Iceland
Edition 1 of 1, collection of the artist
S’ERCHITU: A Study Of Derivative Topographics & A Single Breath, 2026
Photographic print on Hahnmühle Matte Photo Rag paper
Sardinia, Italy
Edition 1 of 1, collection of the artist
S’ERCHITU No. 2: A Study Of Derivative Topographics & Cursid Fate, 2026
Photographic print on Hahnmühle Matte Photo Rag paper
Sardinia, Italy
Edition 1 of 1, collection of the artist
SPATIAL ERRORS: A Study Of Derivative Topographics & Dislocation, 2025
7 Photographic prints on Hahnmühle Matte Photo Rag paper
Jubilee, Illinois, USA
Editions 1 of 1, collection of the artist
UPRISING: A Study Of Derivative Topographics & Rebellion, 2026
Photographic print on Hahnmühle Matte Photo Rag paper
Warsaw, Poland
Edition 1 of 1, collection of the artist
MESTIZAJE: A Study Of Derivative Topographics & The In-Between 2025
6 Photographic prints on Hahnmühle Matte Photo Rag paper
Mexico City, Mexico
Editions 1 of 1, collection of the artist
MESTIZAJE No. 4: A Study Of Derivative Topographics & The In-Between 2025
Photographic print on Hahnmühle Matte Photo Rag paper
Mexico City, Mexico
Edition 1 of 1, collection of the artist
MESTIZAJE No. 3: A Study Of Derivative Topographics & The In-Between 2025
Photographic print on Hahnmühle Matte Photo Rag paper
Mexico City, Mexico
Edition 1 of 1, collection of the artist
MESTIZAJE No. 2: A Study Of Derivative Topographics & The In-Between 2025
Photographic print on Hahnmühle Matte Photo Rag paper
Mexico City, Mexico
Edition 1 of 1, collection of the artist
UA-05.2026-P206: A Study Of Derivative Topographics & Sublime Aesthetics, 2026
Photographic print on Hahnmühle Matte Photo Rag paper
Kyiv, Ukraine
Edition 1 of 1, collection of the artist
UA-05.2026-P201: A Study Of Derivative Topographics & Automated Warfare, 2026
Photographic print on Hahnmühle Matte Photo Rag paper
Dnipro City, Ukraine
Edition 1 of 1, collection of the artist
UA-05.2026-P202: A Study Of Derivative Topographics & Automated Warfare, 2026
Photographic print on Hahnmühle Matte Photo Rag paper
Mykolaiv Oblast, Ukraine
Edition 1 of 1, collection of the artist
UA-05.2026-P203: A Study Of Derivative Topographics & Great Expectations, 2026
Photographic print on Hahnmühle Matte Photo Rag paper
Chornobyl, Ukraine
Edition 1 of 1, collection of the artist
SAMOSELY No. 1: A Study Of Derivative Topographics & The Babushkas Of Chornobyl, 2026
Photographic print on Hahnmühle Matte Photo Rag paper
Chornobyl, Ukraine
Edition 1 of 1, collection of the artist
MODERN GROUND: A Study Of Derivative Topographics & Nuclear Meltdown, 2026
24 Photographic prints on Hahnmühle Matte Photo Rag paper
Chornobyl, Ukraine
Editions 1 of 1, collection of the artist
THE SILENT MIGRATION: A Study Of Derivative Topographics & Displacement, 2026
24 Photographic prints on Hahnmühle Matte Photo Rag paper
Kharkiv Oblast / Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine
Editions 1 of 1, collection of the artist
