I started regularly photographing in Elizabeth Park in late March 2020 and continue to this day. At the time, Covid and working from home meant abandoning nascent projects that required travel and contact with people. Instead I started frequenting the park more regularly, first on weekends and then at nearly any opportunity I find. Photographing in the park became an obsession, and photographing the people within the park became a new part of that obsession.

The park draws visitors from across the region, ages and ethnicities. They come to visit the oldest rose garden in the US. To hold weddings and ceremonies, to be photographed in it, to exercise, rehearse and more recently as a refuge for the quarantined world we’ve been living in. These photographs are about the relationship between the people and the landscape. The landscape they find themselves in and the landscape that they author with their presence.