I photograph the natural and the engineered landscape thinking that the pictures help to illustrate our collective autobiography. This narrative, as far as I am successful, will describe our shared history - and lend insight as we design our common future.

Two projects occupy me now. REMNANTS OF THE FIRST WORLD and DEBRIS FIELD are grafts of the Red Desert project, which ended with the publication of RED DESERT / History of a Place in 2008.

REMNANTS is primarily catalog of unintended monuments - it is an homage to the brash optimism that  brings us to this top-heavy wobbly moment in the early 21st century; the one populated by cities sprawling in witless exuberence, by crumbling steel mills and poisoned deserts;  and on the west's great rivers by gleaming high dams impounding shrinking silty lagoons.

DEBRIS FIELD is an "archeology of chance" - a look close-up at artifacts I've collected in eight years of traveling the arid landscape between Montana and Mexico. It adds up to a table full of mute curiosities floating decades or centuries away from home.