About

I started making photographs when I was fourteen years old. My most formative experience as a photographer came a year later when I traveled to New York City with my mother, six weeks after September 11, 2001. I photographed everything, the people, the subway, the skyline, the aftermath. That experience shaped the kind of photographer I would become. Someone drawn to places and people that the world is in the process of moving past. My work focuses on storytelling, particularly stories about people and the places they live. I am drawn to individuals and communities in places that are frequently overlooked, and I build relationships with the people I photograph through empathy, trust, and conversation. It is important to me that the people in my work are photographed with dignity, and that viewers come away understanding something meaningful about their lives.