In my work, I challenge traditional notions about the function of photography. My photographs explore the viewer’s perception and expectations, and can be seen as a revival of how we consider the photographic image, particularly within the context of digital media and its relationship with analog photography. I hope to activate the standard viewer/image relationship, extending the possibilities of photography beyond its traditional application. In my work, I explore the conspicuous elements in a photograph that do not exist in the material world by providing the minimal amount of visual information to the viewer, diluting, and distilling the photographic image. I want the viewer to struggle to observe the visual information, and at the same time confront how one knows something to be true, and what one thinks they expect or understand about a photographic image. I am revisiting the performative ways in which I like to photograph- considering the landscape, travel, time, motion, and memory. I am using the digital camera to capture information that plays with the viewers perception and a line where photography may intersect with other mediums, such as painting and video. Working with video and still images, I am constructing multiple layers of imagery shot at varying exposure settings. I plan on continuing this exploration, and I also plan on integrating analog photography into this process as well – photographing with my medium format camera and then working with the images digitally and in the darkroom. I will continue to challenge traditional notions of photography, working with digital and analog photography, site specific installations, as well as with video.