Suburban Geometries is a long-term project which explores the formal qualities of the suburban neighborhoods we live in. I’m interested in the graphic aspects of architecture and designed landscape, the intersection of line, color, texture, and light with depth, the ability of the camera’s focal plane to compress space. I purposefully reframing property boundaries, stepping back to include a sign, a car, a recycling crate, a telephone pole. Inevitably the photographs can’t help being a dialogue about class, our quest for peace and order, the competition between the material world and nature. After years of rebelling against the zen pefection of centered “beautiful” objects, I’ve finally found a way to capture the chaos and beauty we’re often too busy to even notice.
For the last five years I’ve been photographing in the suburbs of California (San Francisco, Santa Cruz, San Jose, Santa Maria), Seattle, New Smyrna Beach, FL, Washington, DC, and Brooklyn, my home. I hope to whittle this enormous project down to a book of 100 images.