TOHOGYHRPP
An investigation and a breakup. Maybe a return to the original, maybe an evolution. A comment on the shake-up. Progress no matter what. Progress building on, but moving away from a 20-year stint in the world of “perfection”. A homecoming to the roots and an acceptance of the absurdity.
Barbuda
Works from two visits, five years apart, to the small Caribbean Island of Barbuda. On a mission to document the aftermath of Hurricane Irma, to being able to sleep again and ultimately to understand deeper.
Portraits
Works in Portraiture featuring subjects encountered across the globe. Some I have spent a lot of time with, some I met for not much longer than it took to photograph them.
The Bamboo Diaries
“In 2011 I headed to China with my friend Bryon Friedman to source a supplier of bamboo for Bryon’s company Soul Poles. Soul Poles makes ski poles out of bamboo and Bryon needed not only high quality and consistency from the supplier, he needed soul. This is the story of us spending a week in China searching for bamboo with soul…”
Published in WATER Journal with a 30-page literary supplement featuring my full diary entry during the trip.
Collage Works
One-of-a-kind works in the chaos-adjacent realm fed by a career-long practice of using the medium of collage to document and channel thoughts and the need to break apart the single-image approach.
King Monkey and the Infinite Sunshine
Works depicting the balance between nature and humankind. Photographed across the globe and initially exhibited at Gallery27 in Santa Barbara.
Hotel Room Mods
Installation works documented in photographic form. These chairs are balanced in perfect negative stability, some stayed balanced for minutes, some just long enough for me to run to the camera and press the button. Photographed in hotel rooms across the globe.
Apart/Together
100 Portraits taken during the initial lockdown due to the Covid-19 pandemic in the spring of 2020. Captured via video chat and featuring persons from across the globe. Part of this series was published in the Washington Post Magazine.
Isla Vista
Works photographed in the small community of Isla Vista just north of the campus of the University of California Santa Barbara. Isla Vista delivers a unique mash-up of beautiful natural environments, peace lovers, communal gardens and academics on one side while most of the noise comes from party-hungry youngsters, left to their own devices for the first time and trying to add their mark to a notorious history.
Zines
JUNGBLUT20xx & the Peanut Butter Sandwich Program. Annual journal and zine featuring stories, works and editorial content. Published since 2008 and available in print.