In Passing

In Passing is a photographic study of roadside memorials across the American West, focusing on crosses, flowers, and quiet sites of remembrance found along roads, deserts, and highways.

There are places along the highway where time slows, where someone loved never made it home. Crosses mark the gravel. Silk flowers fade in the heat. A candle in a jar waits for dusk. In Passing is a visual elegy to these roadside shrines, ephemeral memorials built not to last, but to be seen. Each photograph documents a moment of quiet devotion left behind by those who still remember, even if the world drives past.

Set against the vast landscapes of the American West, deserts, forests and mountain roads, this series captures grief not as spectacle, but as presence.

Publications

Dodho Magazine, 2026

In Passing was published by Dodho Magazine, where the series was presented as a study of traces left behind in ordinary places.

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A lone wooden cross with a sign attached stands in a barren landscape, decorated with flowers at its base. In the background, a mountain and a wide open sky with scattered clouds are visible.
A desert scene with sparse vegetation and a white cross memorial with the name 'Susan Lewis' in the distance.
Two white crosses decorated with stuffed animals and flowers in a desert landscape with mountains in the background.
Three white crosses mounted on rocks in a desert landscape with mountains in the distance and a partly cloudy sky.
A teddy bear and a cap placed on dry desert ground with sparse vegetation, leaning against a white stucco wall under a clear blue sky.
White cross with pink flowers in a desert landscape, with a small house in the background and mountains under a blue sky with clouds.
Two wooden crosses with inscriptions, placed in a desert landscape with rocks and sparse bushes under a blue sky, memorializing James H. Jensen and El Jessen, with dates and personal messages.
White cross memorial in a desert landscape with mountains in the background and sparse bushes under a blue sky.

Part of an ongoing exploration of Americana, memory, and the traces people leave behind in the landscape.