Buy “Ghosts of the Machine Age”

“Ghosts of the Machine Age” is a limited-edition monograph, hand printed and hand bound, the result of three years of visual exploration of the remaining echoes of 20th century industrialization. The edition is limited to 20, each numbered and signed by the artist. There are 75 pages of carefully curated photographs, accompanied by a unique poem, written by the award-winning poet, Jacob Fidoten. 

As a photographer I am drawn to creating images of the infrastructure that propelled the industrial revolution of the 20th century. Within this world I document the machinery, the factory spaces, the bridges and railroads that connected all of this together as a living organism. I never approach my subjects as relics or dinosaurs of the past. What I see is the nobility of what these machines, these factories, the railroads, the bridges and tunnels have come to mean both aesthetically and as symbols of the commerce they made possible.

I set up every photograph as if I were taking a portrait of a person of great importance and stature. Because that is what I see when I stand in awe of what the hand of man made possible.