Our society often treats place as a central defining characteristic, second only to name and followed closely by profession. We all have a catalogue of images in our mind that we call upon when a city, town, or country’s name is mentioned and those images help us to form an opinion of place, and those we meet from there.

What is it that makes us ‘of’ a place?  As a former American expatriate and one who has lived my adult life essentially placeless this is a central question in my work.

In my ongoing project Imag[in]ing America I am interested in investigating national, regional, and local identities as well as ideas of otherness as they relate to place and documentary photography.