hostile work environment

In the Austral Summer of 2024, I traveled to Antarctica not as an explorer or scientist, but as a carpenter with the United States Antarctic Program—part of the blue-collar backbone that keeps research on The Ice possible. Between shifts in wind-blasted cold and long hours of physical work, I documented our temporary world: the tents we pitched, the structures we raised, and the strange, spare beauty of the environment we built within.

Shot on a specialized panoramic film camera, these images focus not on the people themselves, but on the evidence of our presence—the forms and fragments of labor in a place that resists permanence. This is not a story of heroics. It’s a quiet record of what it means to work, to build, and to endure at the edge of the world.

Complementing these large-format works are intimate snapshots, offering a more immediate, personal perspective that deepens the emotional and narrative texture of the project. Together, they form a layered portrait of life and labor on the edge of human habitation.

By combining analog processes with a deeply personal engagement with the environments and workers that shape them, this work seeks to transcend documentary—immersing the viewer in a tactile, almost monumental experience of space, time, and labor. Through these images, we explore themes of endurance, isolation, and transformation, and the fragile constructions of human endeavor in a landscape that relentlessly seeks to erase both humans and their endeavors.