Seeing Things

I investigate the interactions between living beings and the environment around them -both natural and artificial– to bring more depth to all elements present in the photo.

Working Artist Statement

My photography blurs the boundaries of reality and challenges conventional perspectives through the usage of lighting, saturation, negative space, and angle. Moreover, the absence of an overarching narrative empowers the viewer to create his/her own by tinkering with the abstract.

Old Photos

New Photos

Suburbia is an intersection between natural and built environments; it is a place where the natural environment itself is constructed to look natural while coexisting seamlessly with houses, roads and cars. This project examines the natural and the built that characterizes suburbia and attempts to find beauty in everyday life.

Edited selection of earlier images that continue to be relevant to the ongoing project:

Previous images:

Artist statement: My subject is the stunningly mundane. I find the cracks in reality and capture glimpses of possibility and stories untold, filtering out the extraneous and leaving the curious.

New images:

 

Fierce as hell

Written in the sky

Identity

 

For this project I wanted to explore some areas of photography that I am passionate about as well as some that are new, I used a new lens on street photography from above to capture the hardcore women of twin peaks as I see them. I also did an exploration of my identity through a set of photos of objects that have connections to things that define me, arranged in a (hopefully) aesthetically pleasing manner in my room, a place where I spend the majority of my time outside of school. For the last set of photos I thought of the simplicity of some previously taken and some new photos that used the sky as a backdrop and used that simplicity to create a message that I believe is necessary in our world today. In these photos I also experimented with sucking the color out of images, something that those of you who have known me for a while will understand is something that did not come naturally to me. all in all I am still looking for a sole focus of my work and I would love feedback on how to get there.

My work is an exploration of human faces. I strive to find the fundamentally similar in the radically, uniquely dissimilar.

 

My exploration through color and pattern crashed into my interest of night photography to give this collection a broad base. Perhaps too broad, perhaps not. Hopefully the irony of many of these photos aren’t lost on the viewer, please think deep (but not too deep).

My photos highlight sterile, industrial environments that harken back to an age of polished, futuristic design. Striking a balance between the real and the surreal, my images explore an underlying fabulism to late capitalist production.

 

My work focuses on and evokes what makes “millennials” millennials—modern life, popular trends, dramatization and exaggeration of the normal, and colors that aren’t quite real.