Hold Still
I began this series the day my daughter was born, compelled not to document the winsome or exciting milestones, but to instead use the camera as means to describe the complicated feelings I was experiencing of becoming a mother. Hold Still investigates phenomena that generate feelings of self-doubt and reflection, isolation and connection, terror and wonder, love and indifference. I photograph my daughter, myself, the landscape, and our home to explore my experience of motherhood and the psychological states that characterize the seismic shifts in my identity and reality.
Umbra
Two years after leaving what I knew as home, my father was diagnosed with cancer. In that same year, I began to collect my feelings of nostalgia and homesickness into a series of photographs that would become Umbra. The impending absence of my father passed over the safety of my memories like a shadow, and my reality began to break apart. For a little over seven years I made photographs to find my way back home and cope with the anxiety of losing a parent, creating a fragile world that exists someplace between magic, sorrow, and memory.
Thirteen
Thirteen explores my relationship and collaboration with my niece, Juliana, as it unfolds over thirteen years. In it we grapple with memories and lived experiences of growing older balancing upon moments of magic, discovery, misadventure and transition - all against the backdrop of suburban America.