Boston Young Contemporaries Show 2016

Each Year MFA students form all over New England compete to be in the Boston Young Contemporaries show. Lumen Evidence, from my thesis show was selected.

Shots Fired: photos from my MFA thesis exhibition

MFA in Visual Arts Thesis Exhibition
June 19 – 25, 2016
Reception Saturday, June 25
6:00 – 8:00 pm

Lesley University
Lunder Arts Center
1801 Massachusetts Ave
Cambridge, MA

SHOTS FIRED: Using a camera-less process, I shoot photosensitive material. It is the literal documentation of the effects of a gunshot on silver gelatin photographic paper, 4x5 sheet film, and paper treated with cyanotype emulsion. The objects are exposed to the ambient light and later developed. When a photograph violently interacts with the exterior world, the medium’s relationship to its referent is affected. My inquiry and experimentation produces objects that capture evidential traces of trauma. The abstract becomes physical, and the viewers become judges, victims, perpetrators, investigators, and witnesses.

Portraits from the Boston Marathon: 2013

I heard the bombs explode from  two blocks away as I was taking portraits of runners after they finished the marathon.  The tone of my images quickly changed as I documented the reactions of the athletes and the spectators.

Chilean Student Protests

I had the opportunity to cover many protests and marches of the student movement in Chile.  The cry for education reform has continued in a sustained way for over two years.  It was fascinating to follow the leaders and watch the youth's courageous political action.  I learned a lot about how to go about photographing protests (and to bring a lemon to suck on, which helps cut the tear gas).