The Road to Nowhere is a photographic narrative inspired by my experience in McCarthy, a remote Alaskan community within Wrangell-Saint Elias National Park.

McCarthy is home to about one hundred year-round residents, a number that doubles in the summer when seasonal workers arrive. Despite the comings and goings, McCarthy is a tight community of unique characters brought together by their intense love of nature, individualism, freedom, and a desire to escape a conventional lifestyle. It is a community constantly in flux and yet constant, defined by the extreme geography of its vast, rugged landscape. 

The Road to Nowhere explores the border between human and natural worlds. It questions what it means to have a home and reflects on our at times contradictory desires for freedom, connection, and belonging. Photographed between 2021 and 2024, the collection offers a glimpse into the lives of those who arrived at the end of a sixty-mile dirt road and realized that "nowhere" has become "now and here” and that they arrived home.