SOCIOLOGRAPHY

I’ve been following the Indianapolis arts group Big Car Collaborative since 2010, when I met co-founders Jim Walker and Shauta Marsh in what was then the up-and-coming neighborhood of Fountain Square.

I first visited Charleroi, Belgium in 2016 as part of my residency at the CRP/ Centre régional de la photographie Hauts-De-France, when I was photographing the future of France’s former coal producing region.

It’s been another busy year working on Story Poles in the small beach towns of Southern California.

This winter marked my fourth trip to Tohoku, Japan, to track the region’s recovery from the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami.

Over the last two years, I have been collaborating with geographers, a playwright, a sound artist, and other scholars on Remix Place, a project designed to explore and represent the experience of residents on the France-Luxembourg border.

In 2020-21, I was a photography fellow with Exhibit Columbus, an architecture and design biennial located in the remarkable mid-century modernist city of Columbus, Indiana.

I am thrilled to announce that my new book with Michael Carriere, The City Creative: The Rise of Urban Placemaking in Contemporary America, was published by The University of Chicago Press in April 2021.

Buffalo is one of my favorite cities, with its amazing architectural history, telescope houses, and activist culture.

Earlier this summer, I returned to France to continue working on my Hauts-de-France Mining Basin project and to present at a conference about resilience strategies.

I was in Los Angeles for a couple of days last week to screen The Area at the Urban Affairs Association annual meeting and then prepare for our screening at the Echo Park Film Center.