Artist Statement

In 2015-2016, I had the good fortune to be awarded a Knight Science Journalism Fellowship at MIT. In my work at Harvard and MIT, I began to search for new modes of visual storytelling under the guidance of Sharon Harper, Ryan Arthurs and Lara Baladi. What I find most powerful about photography is the feeling it can evoke: I strive to “articulate the inarticulate,” making images that are more open-ended and less prescriptive than what you’ll find in my writings as a journalist. I try to be alive to mythic and ecological understandings of the world in recognition of the fact that the world is not constructed in a linear, rational fashion: we are all part of a zig-zagged web of interconnections. The themes I am interested in exploring through photographs are much the same as the themes that are woven into my written work: I’m interested in how the way we live shapes our landscape and how that landscape in turn shapes us. These are questions that feel more urgent than ever during the current climate emergency. Given that the majority of our species now lives in cities, I’m especially interested in the intersection between built and so-called natural environments and in looking for ways to bridge and connect these spaces instead of seeing the lines that divide them.