Firewatch

“At the heart of this story, I think, is a simple, abiding belief: it is possible to live wisely on the land, and to live well. And in behaving respectfully toward all that the land contains, it is possible to imagine a stifling ignorance falling away from us.”

– Barry Lopez

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April 2026 Update:

This exhibit was featured at the Eugene Y in the Fall of 2021. This was around a year after the Holiday Farm fire and Santiam fire that burned a lot of the land I was flying over in Oregon. It was heartbreaking to watch, to say the least, but it inspired an ongoing photography conservation project to document climate change and habitat loss. That gallery is call Her Wild and you can check it out here.

Here is the original gallery post from October 2021:

Flying aerial firewatch, navigating the sea, and hiking throughout Oregon have led me to a myriad of captivating views: some extraordinary and others alarming. Oregon became a state 162 years ago and has changed dramatically since its inception.

Here, I intend to portray a more holistic representation of those changes, one that showcases its beauty as well as the ongoing impacts of climate change and deforestation.

From the airplane, we can see the enormous influence we have on the earth; our story is being carved onto the land. My hope is that by sharing these images with you I can show you what lies beyond the tree line.