Rochester,
Winter 2026

Rochester is home. It got under my skin slowly, the way good cities do. There is a vintage quality to this place that is hard to put into words. The brick buildings, the Genesee River cutting through it all, the old industrial bones still visible everywhere you look. And then there is Kodak. George Eastman built his company here in 1892 and in doing so made Rochester the birthplace of modern photography. For someone who shoots on film-inspired Fujifilm cameras, that history is not just interesting. It feels personal.

This winter I have been splitting time between Rochester and Buffalo, shooting both cities as the season does what it does up here. The cold is real and it is persistent. But winter light in upstate New York has a quality you cannot find anywhere else. Low sun, long shadows, snow that turns ordinary scenes into something worth pointing a camera at.

This portfolio is a work in progress. Rochester deserves more frames than this and it will get them. Come back for additions throughout the season.