The ROAD TO RUIN
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an exploration of the beauty that exists beyond the familiar. Through black-and-white infrared photography, hidden landscapes, lost highways, abandoned structures and forgotten churches that are transformed into haunting, dreamlike scenes where time feels suspended. The invisible becomes visible, revealing a world that is both unsettling and deeply captivating.
The Road to Ruin
There are places the world has forgotten—where silence settles into abandoned buildings, weathered churches stand as hollow witnesses, and empty highways disappear into an uncertain horizon. Through the unsettling vision of black and white infrared photography, familiar landscapes are stripped of their comfort, revealing a world that feels suspended between memory, decay, and eternity.
This collection is a journey through the forgotten corners of the American West, where time leaves its unmistakable mark on every road, ruin, and lonely vista. These photographs are not simply documents of place, but meditations on impermanence, isolation, and the quiet beauty that remains long after the echoes of human presence have faded. They invite you to wander beyond the ordinary, into landscapes where the past lingers and every shadow tells a story.
The road to ruin
Follow the journey across the American West
Artist Statement
"The world's big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark."
~ John Muir
Following the Road Into the Unknown
In early 2021, I began traveling — and somewhere along the way, I discovered that I didn’t have to come home.
My work could travel with me. So I followed the road.
For the first time, I was able to live within the landscapes that had inspired my photography for years. I spent longer in wild places, wandered farther from the beaten path and learned to let the landscape, the weather and the camera decide where I would go next.
Some places were forgotten and slowly being reclaimed by the earth. Others were landmarks seen by millions of people. It didn’t matter. Each held something worth finding.
There was no grand itinerary. No carefully mapped destination. Just an open road, a camera, changing weather, and the feeling that somewhere beyond the next turn was a photograph I hadn't seen before.
Nearly half a decade later, I’m gathering those journeys into a single volume.
Thousands of miles across the American West. Hundreds of miles on foot. Hundreds of thousands of frames captured along the way.
What began as travel became something much deeper—a prolonged conversation with a small, extraordinary corner of this planet.
This book is a record of those miles, those places, and the moments that could only have been found by going there.
A dedication to the road.
To the forgotten.
To the wild.
And to the landscapes that kept calling me back.