In the summer of 2016, fresh off 7 months abroad and in search of more meaning in my travels, an idea came to me. Why not photograph all of the National Parks? And thus, my National Park Project was born.

Starting a project like this gave me a goal, a mission. I wanted to create a single body of work to freeze time, with an ever changing environment in our parks. How many times have you stopped by one of the infographics at the parks, such as in Glacier National Park, that displays all the receding glaciers or glaciers that don’t even exist anymore? Or read or heard about the wildfires ravaging the West? Or massive hurricanes devastating the coastal areas? I wanted to capture this body of work for future generations, and that when I re-visit a park 40 years from now, that I have photographic reminders of what the parks once were.