Guerdon was created in November 2011 during the early months of the Souvenir project. At its core, the image represents an interior decision: to remain standing and face the storm when it arrives, even in total darkness.

A photograph taken during an early October snowfall on Bolivar Heights. This image became a foundational moment in the Souvenir project, connecting dream, place, and the practice of witnessing meaning over time.

Photographed in 2011 inside the Millville schoolhouse, this Souvenir image captures a bowed form held between light and shadow in an an old schoolhouse classroom.

A photograph from Christmas Day 2012, taken just after my uncle’s funeral, when everything appeared unchanged and yet was no longer the same. Part of an ongoing documentation of family, place, and the slow shift of structures once assumed to endure.

A winter photograph taken at the Ocean City inlet, where sand, fencing, and horizon lines begin to register as something other than landscape. Within Souvenir, the image marks a moment where external place and internal terrain briefly align.

A photograph of a found feather, made on April 7, 2012, as part of the Souvenir Project. The image documents the moment a sustained creative block broke, not through effort, but through surrender. One of the more consequential photographs in the archive.