Growing Up Fox

Growing Up Fox documents a legacy of red fox families living across shifting habitats, photographed over more than thirty years. Generation after generation, they navigate territories, raise their kits, and hunt in landscapes increasingly shaped by human presence.

Red foxes have always been deeply personal to me. Growing up by the ocean, they were among my first wildlife subjects, alongside the shorebirds and horses that first drew me to a camera. I watched open dunes and maritime forest give way to pavement, porch lights, and the steady hum of technology. As greenery receded and houses rose, the foxes did not disappear. They adjusted. They slipped through corridors of backyard and brush, beneath decks and along fence lines, moving with quiet certainty through environments remade by our hands.

In many ways, they feel like a living thread between worlds old and new. They carry the memory of untamed shoreline even as they step lightly across fresh asphalt. Their perseverance is not loud, but it is constant. They survive in the shadow of expansion and often thrive within it, guided by alert intelligence and instinctual grace.

Through photographing them, I have come to understand resilience not as resistance, but as adaptation. The foxes remain, bridging what was and what is becoming. They have shaped the way I see the natural world and our place within it. They will always hold a piece of my heart.