I photograph cities the way you listen to a conversation through a wall. Something is happening just past the surface, and the surface itself becomes the subject.
Across cities on several continents, I've found the same condition repeating. Padlocked gates and bricked windows beside plants forcing through concrete. Eyes painted onto crumbling walls. Figures held at distance behind rain and glass. The city withholds and the city watches, and it does this everywhere, to everyone, in every language.
What I'm after is not documentation. It's closer to a recognition: the feeling of standing in front of something ordinary and realizing it has been carrying weight the whole time. I locate where that weight lives.

• Central Library
• Courthouse Library
• Shirlington Library