America

America (2025) is an ongoing photographic series that interrogates the constructed environment as a site of absence, latency, and psychological residue. Rather than documenting people directly, the work attends to spaces where human presence is implied but withheld, structures built for occupation yet marked by vacancy. These images foreground the tension between architecture and abandonment, asking how space mediates identity, mobility, and alienation in late capitalist America. By framing the built environment as both witness and container, Stephen reveals the spectral conditions of modern life, where presence is deferred, and the trace becomes more legible than the subject itself.