Projects
Below are my ongoing projects, some photography, some history, most somewhere in between. Each gets its own page.
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Objects of Record
These are family heirlooms. Art, jewelry, tools. Things handed down to me, and things I asked to be the custodian of. These items are held in trust, not owned. Every one of them has a story. The goal is to get that story recorded before it’s lost, so my descendants…
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The Darkroom & Studio
After becoming a juried artist with HCAA, I did what I do best: recognize hidden potential in a space. This time it was the basement of HCAA’s Birdie Gallery. I was down there for my day job, the one that actually pays the bills, checking out the building’s heating and…
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Reverend Barney Stone
May 17, 1847 — November 20, 1942 Formerly Enslaved · Union Soldier · Educator · Minister Most of what is written here comes from Stone’s own account, given to the Federal Writers’ Project in the late 1930s, and from a history compiled by many contributors. Barney Stone was born into…
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Riverside Cemetery – Noblesville, Indiana
Riverside Cemetery sits along the White River, on land that was once part of William Conner’s farm. Sources disagree on exactly when it became a cemetery, one puts it at 1820, three years before Noblesville existed as a town, another puts it at 1827, with the earliest marked grave dated…
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Noblesville Creates Campus
This space was never meant to be where the work gets made. I used to think one room had to do everything: shoot, process, show, store. That’s a tempting kind of efficiency until you actually try it. Public access and wet darkroom work don’t share a room well. Working light…
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The Gettysburg Session
Gettysburg was part of a family trip, not a dedicated photography expedition. I knew I wanted to document it, but I also knew there wasn’t much to actually document. A lot of open fields, monuments, and stories. It’s hard to photograph a place like that without just making snapshots of…
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The Model – Stop Bath Bettie
Meet Bettie, official studio mascot and permanent model. She’s a plaster bust who lives on a shelf in the studio and doesn’t say much about it. Bettie exists because someone has to sit under the lights while I figure out what a new setup actually does. She doesn’t ask for…
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History in Focus
My exhibit, History in Focus, set out to document Noblesville’s older homes and commercial buildings using my great-grandfather’s 1902 Bausch & Lomb lens on a 4×5 field camera. Each image was made on Ilford Direct Positive Paper, creating a single, one-of-a-kind print. I wanted the project to show the town’s…