The Haunted—Contemporary Photography Conjured in New England explores multiple histories unique to New England including early Puritanism and the fear of witchcraft or sorcery, the rich tradition of landscape poetry, and the creative impulse in general (ie: the act of conjuring things out of thin air in an attempt to make the invisible world visible) with a further comparison to contemporary photography produced in New England. Poems by New England poets dating back to the 17th century run parallel to the images in the book. 

The Haunted draws a circle around contemporary New England photography as being unique and rich in personal narrative, particularly in the way the landscape and the human/animal relationship to nature endures as a source of inspiration (as it did for poets like Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Anne Sexton, Sylvia Plath, Henry Wordsworth Longfellow among others). There is an emphasis on intimate and individual experience—the subtle relational qualities of one person’s perception—  over a global, factual or objective recording of the world. Much of the work is grounded in experimentation or performance and is made over a long time, measured by hours or days rather than fractions of seconds. Additionally in this age of iPhones, mass digital imaging and AI, nearly all the photographs presented in The Haunted are made with film and large cameras, often at night with very long exposures or flash. There are some exceptions, but the work is labor intensive and analog and harkens back to the 19th century origins of photography.