What the World Looked Like While She Was Dying (2025)

Made during the final months of my mother’s life, these photographs record the places, light, and ordinary moments that surrounded that period. They are not a direct record of illness, but of the world continuing alongside it. The final image was made the following day.

Snow-covered ground beneath an amber light at blue hour — 01 / 09

A city bus passing through rain at night — 02 / 09

Suburban houses and scattered lights at blue hour — 03 / 09

Warm sunlight falling across an interior staircase — 04 / 09

An open doorway illuminated in violet light — 05 / 09

A quiet suburban street at dusk — 06 / 09

An IV pole silhouetted against a hospital window — 07 / 09

An empty curved corridor under fluorescent light — 08 / 09

An autumn alley with parked cars and a communications tower — 09 / 09 · The following day