At River’s Edge

At River’s Edge

At River’s Edge explores childhood within the shifting boundaries of Maryland’s Eastern Shore, where home gives way to field, marsh, and water, and the cultivated is never far from the wild.

Made over years at my family’s home on the Choptank River, these photographs move between documentary moments and observations of the landscape. Children play, work, wander, and disappear into spaces shaped by water, weather, animals, hunting, and the traces of those who came before them. The landscape is not simply a backdrop, but a presence—sometimes sheltering, sometimes indifferent, and always changing.

I am interested in this place as a liminal space: between land and water, domesticity and wilderness, safety and risk, childhood dependence and emerging independence. Gates, docks, doorways, tree lines, and shorelines recur throughout the work, marking boundaries that are continually crossed.

The photographs resist a fixed narrative. Instead, they consider the fleeting experience of belonging to a place while simultaneously growing away from it. In At River’s Edge, childhood and landscape share the same condition: neither stays still.