Rural Autumn

Photographed between 2022 and 2025 in Southwest Ohio and Northern Virginia, this series examines the rural landscape in autumn, when farms, barns, animals, and fields reveal both their abundance and their impermanence. The season’s light, fragile yet luminous, renders these subjects as more than documents of agricultural life; they become meditations on time, labor, and the delicate bond between human and land.

In Ohio, the fields open to the expanse of the Midwest: wide horizons, active farms, and small-town peripheries that situate agricultural work within a living present. In Virginia, weathered barns and farmsteads stand as vernacular monuments, marked by centuries of endurance and transformation. These structures embody a layered history of settlement, labor, and preservation, reminding us how the rural carries the weight of the past. Together, these landscapes highlight both continuity and divergence, one rooted in ongoing cycles of cultivation, the other in historical resonance.

Engaging traditions of pastoral art and documentary photography, Rural Autumn resists simple nostalgia. Instead, it treats the countryside as a living archive, a site where history, memory, and environment converge, shaping not only the land but also our cultural imagination.