I am a visual artist, college educator, and occasional freelance photojournalist living in California. My research and practice revolve around experimental landscape aesthetics, phenomenology, and social/environmental justice. I am especially drawn to utilizing analog film and handmade cameras to create imagined landscapes. Timeless aesthetics such as horizon lines, skyscapes, and mountains inspire me, and I often make images that question what it means to look into the distance. Using colorful dye to physically manipulate analog film, working with multiple exposures and/or light leaks, and building imperfect cameras out of discarded materials allow me to collaborate with light and space to create new kinds of photographs. In graduate school, I was building crude pinhole cameras out of mannequin heads as a metaphorical study of sight, and I enjoy the idea that the camera itself can be a conceptual player in the reception of an image.

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