It’s surprising that in over 20 years of making photographs and art, I have never made a zine before. It felt like the right opportunity to do so with the photographs I made in spring 2026 of one gated community in Florida. While visiting and taking some morning walks, I was drawn to both the natural and manufactured fences that clearly demarcated the houses in the community. Some of them were quite beautiful, while others felt contrived, yet all were somewhat unique in their presentation and oddly beautiful in the warm Florida sunlight and natural colors.
The zine is titled “Good Fences Make Good Neighbors,” which is a quote from a Robert Frost poem called “Mending Wall.” In the poem, two neighbors discuss (debate) the purpose of a stone wall that separates their properties, with one neighbor wanting to get rid of it, while the other wants to keep it. Despite this poem being written in 1914, the concepts of the wall or fence and the need or desire to separate properties still ring true today. Many of the fences in this Florida community were massive and immersive:
Others, were more subtle and elegant:
Altogether, the roughly 40 images in the series tell a cohesive story about property, the intersection of humans and nature, and some oddly curious, intriguing, and, dare I say, beautiful photographs.
The zine is on sale now and can be purchased by completing the form on the shop page. For the first 5 orders, I’ll be sending along an 8×10in print of one of my favorites.