I started my career as a journalist, where I learned how to research complicated subjects, find the interesting questions, and turn what I found into stories people actually wanted to read. At the same time, I was building an education around another question that interested me: how people interact with the natural world.

I designed an interdisciplinary course of study that brought together ecology, the biological sciences, sociology, cultural theory and the study of human relationships with nature. I later worked professionally in entomology, including field and research work that gave me a much closer view of insects than most writers ever get.

Photography has been part of my life for nearly three decades, from early black-and-white work to the natural-history, landscape and infrared photography I make today.

Today those experiences come together in my work in cultural entomology. I use journalism, historical research, science, fieldwork and photography to investigate the strange ways insects and other arthropods have moved through human history and culture.