Born in upstate New York, in the same hospital room that, years later, would too bore my younger sisters. Time and time again my family left the landscape of Upstate New York and for months, or often years didn’t return. As a child I often thought of my parents as flighty, or easily bored but having grown up I now realize how quickly teenagers jump to judge.

Eventually I returned to Upstate New York and began my undergraduate studies at Bard College. Here, I began taking photography classes as a creative means to offset the heavy workload of a history major. It wasn't until sophomore year when I began working with the view camera that my interest in photography was solidified. The view camera had me in awe; silver gelatin prints that I’d never seen detail so densely and delicately described. That awe never went away. I never stopped admiring the unique ways in which large format film describes the texture of skin; tones and pores. Here, my collegiate career as a historical studies major came to an end.

During my time at Bard College, I began a long-term project titled ‘Feathers to Flesh’ which chronicled the physical and spiritual changes I bore witness to as my sisters grew out of childhood and began the journey into adulthood. For a long time, I struggled with photographing the family. I held myself responsible for exploiting my sisters, my mother, and the delicacy of their lives; their image. Eventually, I came to understand this practice instead as an act of love and an expression of admiration.

After graduating from Bard College in 2020, I moved across state lines for several years to study the unique color and light that the American south has to distinctly offer. After leaving the family home of Upstate New York, this project became a means for me to search for the feelings of intimacy that photographing the family provided me in a new and unfamiliar world. Through capturing the South I developed a deep appreciation and fondness of the Southern landscape and its people. This project continued as I moved back to Upstate New York and served as a means to reacquaint myself with the unchanged yet strangely unfamiliar landscape of my childhood. Not only returning to a landscape that felt spiritually alien; but to the faces that I’d known all my life, now developed so drastically from the girlish ones I left behind as if scared by time.

Years later, my practice is still firmly rooted behind the ground glass of the view camera and still my sisters are often in front of the lens. Currently, I work in Manhattan, and photograph in my hometown of Saugerties, New York; living between the two.

Born in upstate New York, in the same hospital room that, years later, would too bore my younger sisters. Time and time again my family left the landscape of Upstate New York and for months, or often years didn’t return. As a child I often thought of my parents as flighty, or easily bored but having grown up I now realize how quickly teenagers jump to judge.

Eventually I returned to Upstate New York and began my undergraduate studies at Bard College. Here, I began taking photography classes as a creative means to offset the heavy workload of a history major. It wasn't until sophomore year when I began working with the view camera that my interest in photography was solidified. The view camera had me in awe; silver gelatin prints that I’d never seen detail so densely and delicately described. That awe never went away. I never stopped admiring the unique ways in which large format film describes the texture of skin; tones and pores. Here, my collegiate career as a historical studies major came to an end.

During my time at Bard College, I began a long-term project titled ‘Feathers to Flesh’ which chronicled the physical and spiritual changes I bore witness to as my sisters grew out of childhood and began the journey into adulthood. For a long time, I struggled with photographing the family. I held myself responsible for exploiting my sisters, my mother, and the delicacy of their lives; their image. Eventually, I came to understand this practice instead as an act of love and an expression of admiration.
After graduating from Bard College in 2020, I moved across state lines for several years to study the unique color and light that the American south has to distinctly offer. After leaving the family home of Upstate New York, this project became a means for me to search for the feelings of intimacy that photographing the family provided me in a new and unfamiliar world. Through capturing the South I developed a deep appreciation and fondness of the Southern landscape and its people. This project continued as I moved back to Upstate New York and served as a means to reacquaint myself with the unchanged yet strangely unfamiliar landscape of my childhood. Not only returning to a landscape that felt spiritually alien; but to the faces that I’d known all my life, now developed so drastically from the girlish ones I left behind as if scared by time.

Years later, my practice is still firmly rooted behind the ground glass of the view camera and still my sisters are often in front of the lens. Currently, I work in Manhattan, and photograph in my hometown of Saugerties, New York; living between the two.