Wild America is a long-term photographic exploration of the American West. Over many years I have returned to these landscapes—some widely recognized, others nearly forgotten—drawn by the enduring power they hold in the cultural imagination.

Working with the nineteenth-century wet plate collodion process, the photographs echo the visual language through which the West was first widely pictured and mythologized. The resulting images carry the marks of the medium itself—chemical irregularities and imperfections that remind us that photographs are not neutral documents but constructed artifacts.

The work is less about documenting place than about examining how landscapes become symbols. Through repetition, time, and observation, these photographs consider the West not only as geography, but as an idea shaped by history, image-making, and memory.

Having spent years traveling to these locations, I am interested in the tension between the land as it exists and the version of it that lives in our collective imagination. Wild America sits in that space between reality and myth, where landscape, history, and authorship converge.