My photo essay on Diana Rose was as much of a story about a 5-year-old battling cancer as it was one on families. The Floyds completely let me in as not only a witness with a camera to the daily humdrum life, but also to big things like the first time Diana realized she was [...]

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because sometimes, when you let yourself just go with the ebb and flow, the mistakes are more beautiful than the things you put your all into.
and that can be so much more enchanting than the on purpose.
(I’ll be packing and moving, and then traveling –to Las Vegas and then back to my beloved Sun City–the [...]

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This short essay is from my second attempt at this sisterhood project in 2008. I tagged along with North Augusta High’s varsity cheerleaders only a couple times for a quick piece for the newspaper I used to work for. It’s funny, these girls definitely were a great team and a family, and even with a [...]

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Elvis, along with his impersonators and tribute artists, has an irresistible charm. The curl of the lip, the burns, that wave of bang, the gyrating hips. You might think the impersonators wouldn’t have swooning fans, you’d be wrong.
To continue the Gatherings project I’m doing with LUCEO’s David Banks, the two of us headed south on [...]

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My ongoing photo essay of Sun City, Arizona during it’s 50th anniversary year was featured on The New York Times Lens blog today. I’m heading back for a third trip mid-March and can’t wait. This project has been such a joy to work on and I’m excited to see it evolve more.
Head over to read [...]

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or is it quadruple? I’m all shook up.

more Elvii to come.

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LUCEO photographer David Walter Banks and I headed south this past weekend for a weekend of impersonations. This is my favorite kind of shooting — no deadlines, my own edits, my own interests–photographing for the joy of it. (Granted I’m happy to take photos any day of the week, but this trip was self-assigned. The [...]

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…- the best gesture of my brain is less than
your eyelids’ flutter which says
we are for each other; then
laugh, leaning back in my arms
for life’s not a paragraph
And death i think is no parenthesis
-ee cummings
Images from my Valentine’s weekend in Florida:

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I think sisters are linked. It’s a closeness that is hard to explain, which is why I wanted to photograph twin sisters because I imagine twins are linked even more so. My sister and I can give each other a look and often know what the other is thinking, twins can take it to another [...]

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