Signs of Occupancy grew out of years of living and traveling abroad, shooting on film everywhere I went. As the negatives accumulated, I started to notice an obsession taking shape: homes. Their personalities, facades, and shapes seemed to reveal so much about the street, the town, the country. Who lived there. What life looked like from the outside.
The work is simple in its premise: what can you learn about a person or a place without ever stepping inside? The images look at homes, buildings, and the spaces people move through every day, but always from the outside. Parked cars, overgrown yards, laundry left out, a gate left open. The kind of details most people walk past. Ordinary exteriors treated as portraits, each one a quiet record of someone's life in progress.

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