Hurricane Helene Response: We are heartbroken by the devastation brought by Hurricane Helene. Our studio building in the River Arts District was flooded but we hope to return someday. In the meantime we are using photography to tell the stories that need to be told.

This event has shaken us to our core, but it has also shown us the incredible power of people coming together.

We’ve seen entire neighborhoods washed away, families searching for their loved ones, and businesses lost to the floodwaters. The weight of this feels immense. But in the face of all this, I’m seeing something else: neighbors gathering in streets and on porches, sharing food, offering support, and lifting each other up. 

We are a community in every sense of the word.

Rivers surged through the heart of countless communities. The water may have receded, but the impact is still felt. For now, the focus is on healing our community—on rebuilding homes, helping families, and standing with those who have lost so much.

I urge you to continue supporting not just me, but the countless artists, businesses, and individuals affected by this disaster. We need your help, not only through the next few months but in the years to come. Western North Carolina—and the people who make it such a beautiful, vibrant place—will rise again. But we can’t do it alone.

I don’t know what more to do except keep going. Source and share missing supplies, deliver generators, heaters, coats and sleeping bags for warmth, hug strangers, check on neighbors, and make people laugh where I can. And through it all, I am reminded that we are still here, still moving forward.

Here is a link to local businesses YOU can support from afar: