My photography book documents vestiges of once mighty, but now forgotten Maya kingdoms in Mexico and Guatemala, discovered and photographed by the 19th century explorer/photographer Teobert Maler. Today, many of these sites lie largely hidden and remain seldom visited. Walking in Maler's footsteps through overgrown jungle terrain and photographing "Maler" sites became my passion. My book depicts many of these sites, and over a century later, provides invaluable documentation of places rapidly being overcome by forces of nature and man, and hopefully serves as a marker for future generations.
I have been photographing indigenous peoples' culture for over forty years, living in Indonesia, Poland, Kazakhstan, Mexico, and Afghanistan. My work is represented in numerous public and private collections, and academic institutions throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia, including the Asia Pacific Museum in Warsaw, San Francisco Arts Commission, Dumbarton Oaks, Spanish Colonial Museum in Santa Fe and special collections at Yale, Stanford, UC Berkeley, Duke, Notre Dame and the University of New Mexico. My 5 award-winning photo books were published in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2025.
Awards Maya Ruins Revisited: In the Footsteps of Teobert Maler, 2020, has been the recipient of 17 major awards, including Best Photography Book of 2021 from the Independent Press Award, the International Book Awards, the Foreword Indies Award, the National Indie Excellence Awards, the New Mexico/Arizona Book Awards for Anthropology, the Southwest Book Production Awards and the New Mexico Book Association Best of Show and Winner in Photography; and Silver Medals from the Prix de la Photographie Paris, Next Generation Indie Book Awards, and IPPY Independent Publishers Award.
Seasons of Ceremonies: Rites and Rituals in Guatemala and Mexico, 2021, has been the recipient of 11 major awards, including four Photography Book of the Year awards from the Independent Press Awards, Foreword Indies, Next Generation Indie Book Awards, and a Gold Medal for People from the Moscow International Foto Awards; 2nd Place for Book from the Moscow International Foto Awards; Silver Medal from the Budapest International Foto Awards and the Prix de las Photographie PX3; Bronze Medal from the Tokyo International Foto Awards; and a 3rd Place in Books/People from the International Book Awards.
Travels Across the Roof of the World in 2023 has received the Silver Medal from the Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Awards, Best Coffee Table Book from the New Mexico/Arizona Book Awards, a Silver Medal from IPPY for Best Coffee Table Book and Bronze Medal for Best Travel Book, and Silver Medals from Prix de la Photographie de Paris and the Budapest and Tokyo International Foto Awards.
My 4th book, Blurred Boundaries: Perspectives on Rock Art of the Greater Southwest, received 12 awards including a Bronze Medal from Prix de la Photographie de Paris; Gold Medals from the Budapest and Tokyo International Foto Awards and Best Photo Book of the Year from National Indies Excellence Awards.
And Unforgotten: Ancient Cities from a Distant Past, received a Gold Medal from the Tokyo International Foto Awards.
