Of Iron & Rust
For nearly three decades, I’ve been traveling the backroads and industrial corridors of America, drawn to the places that built this country and the people who still call them home. What began as assignments and chance encounters has become a lifelong pursuit — a search for what remains when the headlines fade and the noise quiets.
This work traces the shifting story of America: towns worn by time, landscapes shaped by labor and loss, and communities caught between division and tradition. These are places where the factories have gone silent but pride endures; where light still falls through the same windows that once lit generations of work; where the past and present lean hard against each other.
This is the America that I’ve seen — a country both fractured and resilient, familiar yet always changing. Nearly thirty years of looking, listening, and bearing witness to a nation still reckoning with itself, a story that continues to unfold in the faces and places within these pages. America is never one story, but many — overlapping, enduring, and unfinished.