Light
Studies

Light Studies is an observational series, closer to note-taking than to narrative. It asks a single question of each image: what is the light doing here, and what does the architecture allow it to do?

The spaces in these photographs were not made with this light in mind. That's the point. When light enters a space it wasn't designed for, through a gap, around a structure, against a surface it was never supposed to touch, it becomes evidence. Evidence of an absence. Evidence of who was not thought of when the space was planned.

The series is quiet and accumulative. Individual images are observations. Taken together, they begin to describe a city's relationship to visibility itself.

Each photograph in Light Studies begins with a structural observation rather than a subject. The camera is directed at the way light moves through or against architecture, columns, beams, arches, vaults, rather than at the people within those spaces.

This is a deliberate inversion of the documentary instinct. By removing the human figure from the frame, the series asks the built environment to speak for itself. What does this space assume about who will inhabit it? What does the quality of its light reveal about those assumptions?

The absence of people in Light Studies is not emptiness. It is argument.