Untitled Boyhood Project - Current

Exploration of boyhood through deconstructed masculinity and childhood friendship. Shot in New York, Berlin, and Chicago.

Construction Workers Kissing - 2024

Ai generated images of construction workers in intimate acts of queer expression.

Rainbows - 2023

The photos made for Rainbows were all taken with the intention of putting color where it normally doesn’t exist as vibrantly. An intent to share my vision and dream of a more hueful world. An ongoing mission to make a new one. To discover and play in this, I listen to music to feel these colors more intensely, buy overpriced flowers and watch them wilt on my kitchen table, and study the face of a friend when a LED bulb envelops them whole. I don’t find myself taking pictures that ask questions like who is this, where is this, what’s the context? My work inadvertently always feels queer to me… in the way I turn my domestic space into a prism or tape post-it note like materials onto the male body. I find myself thinking in terms of abstraction, first starting with a simple attraction to a face, a flower, or a light. I follow this interest, print it, and stare at it for hours until I can put that abstract feeling into words. I think it’s love. Love for people and their complexities both physical and emotional, and love for the shared hope we feel when color enters the room. Like a beam of sun. It’s warm and it brings us together to escape loneliness. Like little rainbows, dancing out of bedroom corners and creases on faces.

In A New Light - 2023

At its core In A New Light is a celebration of simplicity, imagined realities, and the complex beauty that exists around us every day waiting to be seen. I started the project last year during my freshman year by photographing new friends in the foundation studios and around New York. At that time I had just finished a melodrama of a high school senior thesis show and was looking for a change. I began to experiment with colors and intense light, something I had always been drawn to throughout my teenage years but never had the courage to explore. It seemed foreign to me and it still does in some ways. 

In their stillness and quiet natures, the selected pieces reflect the way I wish the world and the people I encounter to be seen. Forever frozen in their kindness and vibrancy. Through this, I’m able to create images that emphasize the both physical, conceptual, and emotional beauty of my friends.

The exploration of alternate realities where color and light is pushed to the max is, while beautiful and illuminating, something I think requires a careful balance. I don’t want to feel like I’m always searching for something outside of my true reality to then wake up one day and have missed my real one. The truth is that there is beauty in the mundane. I don’t see a harm however in imagining a world in which all of those emotions that come with color and light are amplified, and in which we begin to allow ourselves to create a new world, even just in a digital landscape such as photography. In A New Light creates a space in which we do not have to be afraid of leaving the familiar, and can begin searching for something new.

The Life and Death of Mr.Chic The Relic - 2022

Senior year of high school angst.