I am a micro-climate photographer happiest mucking around with the detritus of life. While investigating compost, landfills and other aspects of our material world, I create visual meditations on the power of regeneration, transformation and renewal.

For the past two decades, I have been exploring what it takes for a suburban family of four to live sustainably. Over time, the ritual of composting transformed climate grief to joy, giving voice to creative activism and a ‘reframing’ of self. In fact, compost is my muse and metaphor and is where I go to make sense of the world. Photography enables me to share the beauty I see in our waste and the possibilities for joy embodied in the apparent mess, whether at the landfill, in the attic, or in my backyard.

Since my mother’s ‘green’ burial in 2022, when we buried her on a bed of compost she and I created together, I have been particularly curious about the earth’s power to heal, and wonder: How can I share the joy that compost, in its many forms, can inspire? My hope is to bring my original ‘compost compositions’ into the world to celebrate all they represent about balance in life, death and society.

My work offers deeply personal narratives about memory, consumption and our relationships to people, place and possessions.