Unseen: Kentucky | Fine Art Infrared Imagery

Unseen: Kentucky Infrared Series

The false color created through infrared photography transforms familiar Kentucky landscapes into dreamscapes—rendering the Bluegrass State's signature verdant fields as ghostly white canopies, tobacco barns as monuments to agricultural heritage, and thoroughbred fencing as geometric rhythms across rolling terrain.

I photographed this series during my final years in Kentucky, using a camera modified to record light beyond the visible spectrum. The technical choice was deliberate, made before relocating west in 2011. Time has revealed the deeper resonance: as memory softens the edges of lived experience, these infrared translations capture not just what Kentucky looked like, but how it feels to remember it.

These images document a specific place and moment—central Kentucky's horse country and rural communities between 2007 and 2008—through a process that renders the ordinary as ethereal. The result is both documentary and interpretive: authentic locations transformed by invisible light into something closer to remembrance than record.

Available as archival giclée prints in the Kentucky Collection in my gallery.