My portrait and professional work is centered on people living in river communities undergoing transition due to development. The portraits I create are of diverse individuals because my professional work as a geographer takes place in different critical places around the world. However, these people have something vital in common: water. I prefer to post-process my images to black and white as I appreciate the timelessness and simplicity that monochrome invokes and how this alteration highlights the character of the subject. I speak with local people impacted by water development as part of my research and I work to capture their relationship to the water with the camera to enhance my scholarship. My collection includes indigenous people and ethnic minorities in the Nile, Mekong, Mara, and Missouri River Basins. My most current work with the Lakota and Dakota People (Oceti Sakowin) in the Missouri River Basin comes as a result of the Standing Rock controversy in 2016.
