Gathered Light Publishing

Frames of Humanity: Seeing Truth in an Age of Illusion

Frames of Humanity is a work of creative nonfiction that examines how perception shapes power, responsibility, and the world we collectively build.

Using photography as a primary lens—but extending far beyond it—the book explores how images, structures, and systems influence what we see, what we value, and what we protect. It considers not only what is shown, but how meaning is framed, circulated, and reinforced across visual culture, architecture, conservation, and modern media.

Rather than simplifying complex issues, Frames of Humanity investigates the ethical consequences of attention itself: how beauty persuades, how care can drift into spectacle, and how good intentions operate within imperfect systems.

This is not a technical guide to photography, nor a manifesto. It is an inquiry into seeing as a moral act—and into the quiet responsibilities that accompany influence, representation, and belonging in a fractured world.

Formats available: • Downloadable PDF • Online flipbook edition (includes PDF download) 6"x9" 188 pages

Print editions forthcoming.

Timberline Mist

Timberline Mist is a collection of photographs made on a cloud-wrapped morning in the alpine. Each image captures a moment of stillness where fog, light, and landscape meet in quiet conversation. Paired with reflective writing, this visual journey invites you to pause, breathe, and see the world softened by weather and time.

Formats available: • Downloadable PDF • Online flipbook edition • 12"x9" fine edition • 11"x8.5" trade edition 44 pages

Beneath the Surface

Beneath the Surface: Exploring Breath, Body, and the Wild Within is an exploration of the deep, both within the ocean and within the self. Through the lens of freediving, wilderness, and personal reflection, this book delves into the transformative power of breath, the relationship between human beings and the natural world, and the way immersion in the wild can shape identity, healing, and survival.

Born on a remote Alaskan island, raised in the forests and mountains of the Pacific Northwest, and drawn to the ocean as both sanctuary and teacher, I have spent my life seeking connection through movement, climbing peaks, exploring deep waters, and existing in the spaces where land and sea meet. But when my body changed, and the physical freedom I had always known was no longer a given, I was forced to reconsider what it means to belong.

This book is not just about freediving, it is about survival in all its forms. It is about the lessons found in deep, quiet places, the balance between control and surrender, and the way nature holds us even when we feel untethered. It is a meditation on conservation, on the creatures that share this planet with us, and on the responsibility we carry to protect them.

Accompanying the text are photographs that serve as both documentation and expression, moments of immersion captured in light and shadow, images that reflect the stillness, movement, and vastness of the ocean and wild places. The interplay of words and images offers a layered experience, allowing readers to not only read about the ocean’s depths but to feel them.

At its heart, Beneath the Surface asks what it means to exist in the space between inhale and exhale, between movement and stillness, between past and future. It invites the reader to reconsider their own connection to the wild, to ask where they feel most alive, where they feel most at home, and how, in exploring nature, they might also find themselves.

Formats available: • Downloadable PDF • Online flipbook edition • 8.5"x10" soft cover 120 pages