A series of nocturnal staircases made in the Silver Lake, Echo Park and Los Feliz districts of Los Angeles.

In the 1920s a network of concrete staircases was built into the myriad hillsides of the Los Angeles district of Silver Lake and Echo Park during their development as residential neighborhoods.

The intention with the ongoing series, City of Sets, is to explore the actual appearance of Los Angeles, which has so often been portrayed on film and TV as places other than itself.

A visual examination and response to the buildings by Los Angeles architect John Parkinson (1861 - 1935). Including LA City Hall, Bullock’s Wilshire Department Store, Los Angeles Coliseum, LA Union Station.

At times shadows and objects interact as if with deliberate intention, playing out some mysterious and unknowable narrative.

Separation Anxiety has grown out of the sensation that what l encounter in front of my camera is not accessible to me, that I will never be able to get any closer than halfway there, an impossible distance to cross. At times shadows and objects interact as if with deliberate intention, playing out some mysterious and unknowable narrative.

Photographs from the one-time primary arteries that run through the forty-plus towns which make up the San Gabriel Valley.

Neighborhoods separated from one another by freeways have been reunited via the pedestrian bridges scattered throughout Los Angeles.

The Los Angeles River, which is subject to seasonal flooding, is spanned by over 130 vehicular, pedestrian, and equestrian bridges and pipelines.

Archival pigment prints are available in a variety of sizes, printed on Hahnemuhle Bamboo paper in limited editions.

In the first decades of the 20th century the film industry developed in southern California. Each studio built sets and later sound stages on what were at the time cheap parcels of land, along with streets designed to resemble a variety of generic places where they could shoot scenes without the interference of daily life and commerce: the studio backlots.