Documenting systems of belief is central to my practice: an entry point into how meaning, identity, and community are constructed and sustained. Oakland Faith is a long-term project that maps and engages the spiritual landscape of Oakland through a combination of photographic documentation, portraiture, recorded interviews, and an interactive platform.

At its core, Oakland Faith considers faith as one of the last formalized systems of meaning within an urban environment increasingly defined by fragmentation, privatization, and improvisation. While many structures of collective identity have eroded, places of worship continue to offer frameworks for belonging and community.

The project does not attempt to define or place judgement on belief, but to observe how it is lived materially, spatially, and socially. It reflects on the persistence of communal structures in a city marked by change, and on the ways individuals and communities continue to construct meaning within it.