Former Career Fire and EMS Lieutenant-Specialist, Writer, and Master Photographer.
Tag: Urban Exploration
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I don’t take pictures to make things look pretty.I take pictures because some things deserve to be remembered the way they really were when I found them—broken, discarded, forgotten about. My work is about the spaces people leave behind—the silence after the machines stop, the stories still stitched into the rust and the dust.It’s about…
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I always thought survival meant things would get better.It doesn’t.You just find new ways to carry the weight. These photographs are what happens after the dust settles.Not the pretty kind of ruin.Not the kind that fits inside neat headlines or gallery frames. This is what gets left behind when hope moves out and leaves the…
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One Saturday morning in May of 2025, I grabbed my camera, tossed my gear into the Amelia’s Ford Bronco Sport, and headed out with my friends Luke and Maddie—the same Luke who runs Luke Explores — to chase down whatever forgotten places we could find tucked away between the cracks of the world. No plan.…
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Explored with Luke Explores! “Phenomenal.” That’s the word I keep hearing. Not once, not from a single person trying to be kind. But over and over again—from different people, in different states, in different chapters of my life. Friends who’ve never met, never exchanged a single word with each other, all looking at my work…
