I have always been drawn to the unique relationship between photographs and reality - their ability to transform a subject as its image travels from physical form to film and finally to paper. My recent photographs explore this relationship by bringing together bizarre settings and ephemeral, often unrecognizable human forms, imparting the resulting scenes with a strange yet seductive quality.

Many of the locations I photograph are places familiar to me - houses of friends and family, outdoor locations I knew intimately as a child, living rooms, basements, and rooftops which occupy distinct periods within my past or present. Yet the resulting images are surprisingly foreign, as if the process of capturing them on film creates an entirely new place, one inhabited by mysterious figures whose identities only begin to emerge within the two-dimensional reality of the photograph.

It is my hope that these images raise more questions than they answer; that they illuminate ambiguities and nuances as I explore a dialogue between figure and environment, movement and stability, dreams and reality.