Quamaria | Latham, New York

 Quamaria | Latham, New York 

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Understory | Martin Dunham Reservoir | Grafton Lakes State Park

Understory | Martin Dunham Reservoir | Grafton Lakes State Park

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Where is Jaliek? | Troy, NY

Where is Jaliek? |  Troy, NY

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Albany Rural Cemetery Landscape | Large Format

Albany Rural Cemetery Landscape | Large Format
Albany Rural Cemetery, Menands, New York 

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Kodachrome Basin State Park | Kane County, Utah

 Kodachrome Basin State Park, Kane County, Utah
37.5244° N, 111.9989° W

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Zion Rancher | Zion National Park

 Rancher on a Horse Drive (Series)
Virgin River Valley, Zion National Park

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Unknown Soldier | Albany Rural Cemetery | Restoration Obscura

Albany Rural Cemetery, Soldiers’ Lot, Section 75, Grave 6342°42’34.16”N 73°43’41.00”W, Menands, New York

Photographed on large format using wet plate collodion techniques echoing those of Civil War-era photographers like Timothy O’Sullivan and Alexander Gardner.

The Albany Rural Soldiers’ Lot, Section 75, was donated to the federal government on June 17, 1862, specifically for the burial of soldiers who died in the Civil War, the majority of them patients who succumbed to wounds or illness in the military hospitals surrounding Albany. Grave 63 bears only the inscriptions Unknown and Soldier, a rank without a name, a life without a record.

By 1872, of the 305,492 Union remains interred across 74 national cemeteries and soldiers’ lots, roughly 45 percent were unidentified. Albany Rural Cemetery holds at least 1,030 Civil War soldiers and sailors, with 149 specifically interred in the Soldiers’ Lot. A small American flag, blurred by wind at the moment of exposure, stands at the stone’s edge, the nation’s quiet, repeated gesture of remembrance for a man whose service outlasted his identity. The large format wet plate image, with its grain, vignetting, and tonal depth, feels entirely appropriate: the same photographic tradition that first brought the Civil War’s dead to public consciousness now bears witness to those still unnamed.

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The Red Tower | Kodachrome Basin State Park

The Red Tower | Kodachrome Basin State Park | Cannonville, Utah 37.5178° N | -111.9940°

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Zion National Park Series 3

Zion National Park Series 3
Zion Natonal Park, Utah 

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Zion National Park Series 2

Zion National Park Series 2
Zion Natonal Park, Utah 

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Zion National Park Series 1

 

Zion National Park Series 1
Zion Natonal Park, Utah 

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Albany Rural Cemetery | 04.03.2026

 

Albany Rural Cemetery |  04.03.2026
Menands, New York 

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Cohoes Falls Dawn | 04.01.2026

Cohoes Falls Dawn | 04.01.2026
Cohoes, New York 

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Albany Sunrise | March 24, 2026

Albany Sunrise | March 24, 2026
Albany, New York 

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State Street Rain | 03.23.2025

State Street Rain | 03.23.2026
Albany, New York

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Concourse: Shadow + Form | Albany, New York

Concourse: Shadow + Form
Empire State Concourse and Office Complex
Image Series 1-20

Artist statement: Concourse: Shadow & Form is a twenty-image series photographed across Albany’s Empire State Plaza and the surrounding New York State Capitol complex, a landscape where mid-century brutalist concrete meets Romanesque Revival stone, and where two very different eras of civic architecture exist side by side.
Shot entirely in monochrome, the series finds geometry in shadow, scale in texture, and form in the spaces between. Concrete and stone. Mass and light. A century apart, connected by the same afternoon sun.

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