Perpetual Care is an ongoing series of photographs depicting historically significant cemeteries and the people who tend them.

While cemeteries have long been a favorite subject of photographers and painters alike, little attention is paid to the gardeners, groundskeepers and volunteers who dedicate themselves to their upkeep. Despite the continued decline of traditional burials around the world, cemeteries remain an important element of the contemporary urban landscape— one part quiet refuge and one part memento mori.

Perpetual Care refers to the endowment fund commonly established for a historical cemetery to pay for the landscaping and general maintenance of the grounds, but the term is used here to acknowledge an ongoing commitment to the stewardship of sacred spaces and common history.

Shot at various locations around the Puget Sound, on 4x5 and 8x10 view cameras with antique brass lenses as old as the cemeteries themselves.