Essays

Writing about the work.


Notes on method, on what the photographs are doing and why. Slow reading. More to come.

25 April 2026 · 14 min

Structure Determines Frame

Vernacular Geometry, Found Composition, and the Ethics of Photographic Attention

A working method articulated as four operational commitments: the recognition of pre-existing geometry, the horizontal cut, the longitudinal return, and the available apparatus. The argument is that the photographer does not compose the world but recognizes when the world has composed itself.