52 Photographs from '25

This is my yearly practice: to look back, to notice what stayed, and to understand why.

A yearly review of my photographs is a December ritual I truly value. It isn’t easy, but it feels essential. I didn’t set out to limit my selection to 52 photographs, but after a few rounds of culling from an initial pool of more than 180, that’s where I ended up. This isn’t a photo-per-week curation - in fact, over half my selections are from two weeks in Japan in late June and early July. Does that mean my work there was stronger? Am I biased by the memory of traveling somewhere new, immersed in a different culture? Or is it the sheer number of photographs I made there? Likely, it’s a mix of all three.

Traveling is a creative outlet for my photography, and photography fuels my desire to travel. My favorite process when traveling is to walk and take public transit, camera in hand, documenting what I see. That becomes clear when I look at this year’s selections (and my daily step counts).

Street photography is another theme that continues to emerge, sometimes overlapping with travel but also standing on its own. My approach is spontaneous and unplanned, which can often lead to frustrating results. However, it feels fantastic when I nail a shot that isn’t invasive, captures a range of emotions, and has a narrative that stands on its own.

Topographic and banal observations continued to be a defining part of my work. This connects to my documentary approach to urban landscapes and environments - scenes that acknowledge time passing and change occurring. It’s the same narrative that drives my environmental documentation of flooding through the Mean High Water project, but more broadly, it’s about witnessing and preserving the evolution of place. If I stumble upon an old car parked on a city block, I will absolutely stop and make a photograph!

These images are fragments of a year — records of places as they existed in 2025. From Charleston to Tokyo, they reflect the passing of time, the changes in place, and the moments that will linger with me.

Thank you for following along, and I hope you have a wonderful 2026!