My photographic investigation into travel, transportation, and voyage began in 1997 in a shipyard in Warnemünde, Germany. I later made images of planes in hangars at the Lemwerder Airfield in Lower Saxony, Germany, and in 1999, I photographed a Zeppelin and shortly after an oil rig being constructed. In the early 2000s I gained access to make work at Frankfurt Airport and 30^th Street Station in Philadelphia.

The work I make around transportation and voyage considers the relationship between the object photographed, a vessel, and the camera obscura. The vessel—an airplane, train car, ship, or Zeppelin—functions as a medium of transfer for either people or merchandise. My camera, often a shipping container itself, or simply a dark room, accommodates both darkness and light, enabling two operations, a factual transfer of light to image and a metaphorical transfer of idea embedded in phenomenon.

Often, airports, train stations, harbors, hangars, and shipyards are depicted as nostalgic places with a view backwards in time. They can be shown as melancholic sites that exist somewhere between memory and expectation. In reality, these sites are non-places, transitional loci made to be voided. From my desolate trainyard scenes at 30^th Street Station in Philadelphia to my images of planes at Frankfurt Airport, my work is never representational, instead I aim to capture an essential experience of place and wish to investigate the objects used for our own movement and for the transportation of goods around the world.