My studio faces a large apartment building in downtown New York City. Even though I have never met any of my “neighbors” across the street, I feel like I know a lot about what goes on in their daily lives. It is like a movie that plays in front of me on a continuous loop. One day I see a couple kissing, another day I notice someone new moving in. Sometimes there are visual clues that manifest in the windows – a parted curtain, a politically charged poster or telltale remnants from Superstorm Sandy. Each window tells its own story.

New York to Los Angeles is an ongoing series of aerial photographs shot during cross-continental commercial flights between the two cities. I want to capture the beauty and abstract qualities of the landscape below, which often goes unnoticed despite the fact that millions of fellow travelers share this perspective every year. 
With only a self-made camera modification, I am deliberately limited when shooting through airplane windows. I carefully choose specific seat assignments and flights to take into account seasonality and variations in flight paths. Since I only make photographs during extremely short timeframes relative to the duration of a typical flight, a lot of this work depends on a fair amount of trial and error, weather conditions, and a bit of plain luck.