In the summer of 2026 I’ll be heading into the Bear Lakes Basin of the High Sierra Mountains, a remote, trackless basin deep in the John Muir Wilderness. I’ll spend 10 days alone carrying a few Hasselblad lenses, 30 rolls of film, a down blanket, and no connected electronics. My aim is to photographically explore a single Sierra location for a length of time. To explore the themes that draw me deeply to these mountains; wilderness, open wandering, art, disconnection, and rich solitude.
I’ve been creatively exploring the Sierra Mountains for over half my life and it can beg the question, why go back to the same geography year after year? I go back in part because discovery is never complete. Discovery of place and of self. And this time, staying in one isolated location presents me an idea inspired from my favorite writer, Henry Thoreau and his observational dedication to a small pond in New England. To know one place is to know the world. It’s to honor the intangible spiritual pull of a place and what it means to slow down, observe, and create something out of that stillness.
This is to be my own artist in residence and a true Sierra Sabbatical.
This portfolio will hold the images I photograph, but to begin I’m offering a presale of a yet to be photographed limited edition print. Click the thumbnail below to learn more.
