2005 - FARMERS, SAINTS, AND TYRANTS
This portfolio is a series of photographs that I took in Scotland in the fall of 2003 and exhibited at the Dairy Arts Center in Boulder, Colorado in 2005. Exploring Scotland was an archaeologist's dream. I also learned about the ancient roots of the Carr/Kerr clan and my own likely ancestry in this region of the world. As a Native American friend told me, she was happy that I had found where my tribe came from.
2004 - PRESENCE WITHIN ABANDONMENT
This was my first major exhibition after deciding that I still wanted to keep showing my work while working a career in archaeology. My work exposed me to many amazing historic resources that I would photograph. This portfolio covered the first ten years of living in the Western USA, and was exhibited at the Center for Southwest Studies, the Farmington Museum, and the Anasazi Heritage Center between 2004 and 2007.
2000 - A FORGOTTEN PLACE
This is a project I initially worked on between 1986 and 1990. The area was the subject of several undergraduate archaeology projects. In 1998-1999 I revised it and made a documentary film about the original research in the 80s. It's about a Mecklenburg County, North Carolina farming community with a history of occupation and abandonment - full of scary woods, creepy ruins, and "things that come out of the well at night". You can view the documentary film on The Archaeology Channel.
1995 - RESTLESS SPIRITS
This portfolio and exhibition was held at the University of Colorado at Boulder Department of Anthropology in 1995 to 1996 and featured photographs of archaeological and historical places taken between 1986 and 1993 in the Southeastern United States. In 2020 I compiled these images into a book and added new work from the Carolinas.
1994 - VLADIVOSTOK
In the summer of 1994, I had the honor of being one of a handful of American and Canadian scientists to travel to the Russian city of Vladivostok in conjunction with the 45th Annual Arctic and Alpine Science Conference. The city is located on the Pacific coast near Russia’s border with China and North Korea and is the administrative center for the Far Eastern Federal Districts. It is home to the Russian Pacific fleet and is the largest Russian port on the Pacific. While there had been unofficial business visitors to the city after the collapse of the former Soviet Union in December of 1991, our group was the first official Western delegation. Due in part to its remoteness, many of the cities historic Czarist and Communist Revolution public art and architecture have remained intact. Some of them are seen in my photographs.
MANMADE ENVIRONMENTS & ALTERED LANDSCAPES - 1988
Between 1985 and 1988 I continued to explore the landscape of Mecklenburg County, I was especially interested in creeks and would hike along various ones flowing through the county. Some of the images in this portfolio were featured in a 1988 group exhibition with Bill Moretz, and Wally Warren in Charlotte, NC.
OHIO - 1987
In the fall of 1987 I spent two weeks documenting my family hometowns in Ohio. This project was more of a personal visual ethnography. I used a Mamiya C330 6x6cm format camera. About five of these images were included in several exhibitions in the late 1980s.
1984 - MCALPINE CREEK PARK
This was my first serious portfolio and exhibition. It was a study of the seasons at a local park. I was studying photography and art history at at local community college at the time. The work was featured in my first solo exhibition held at Queens College in November/December 1984. Shortly after this series was completed, I switched my major to Anthropology.
1978 to 1983 - SCHOLASTIC AWARDS AND OTHER EARLY WORK
This portfolio contains examples of my earliest serious efforts in photography starting around age 12 and continuing into my first year of college. Many of these photographs were chosen for Gold Key and Kodak Medallion of Excellence awards in the Scholastic art exhibitions, or for my first juried exhibitions at places like The Light Factory in Charlotte, NC. They also helped win me recognition from the National YoungArts Foundation as a Promising Young Artist in the visual arts in 1982.