“River is a project I made during the coronavirus pandemic. I left New York City on March 15th, 2020, thinking I would be in Wyoming for two weeks. However, as isolation continued for nearly a year, I ended up staying much longer. In Jackson, I was able to take walks while always keeping a distance from others. I often walked by the Snake River near Emily’s Pond and as I did, I became captivated by the people I observed, and my sense that they seemed to be looking for the same things I was: a connection to the landscape of the place and the landscape of the new social reality in which we found ourselves, a connection that felt more and more and more elusive as the pandemic wore on. The images in this series, taken with a medium format camera, capture the unease I felt and saw around me. A woman sits by a pond seeming to be in a meditative position, yet she seems preoccupied with her phone. A group of young people keep their distance forming a human triangle. A man swims downstream and seems almost lost in the river’s current. All these images are expressions of the tension not only between people and space but also in the spaces between people.”
In the fall of 2024 River was exhibited at the Maya Frodeman Gallery in Jackson,Wyoming.