About Me
Having worked collaboratively within my photography projects, I realize the strength in using creative processes as advocates of empowerment. To me, the photographic process itself acts as inspiration and form of communication between the photographer and the photographed. My goal is to influence and broaden peoples understanding of contemporary crisis and their approaches using tools provided within the visual landscape.
I-MMIGRATE
The I-MMIGRATE Lives of Colour exhibition is a curation of 20 images and oral histories. Individuals from the Windrush Generation in Gloucester and the African Diaspora in Cheltenham share their story of moving to and living in England. The project was realized in collaboration with the British NGO Lives of Colour, which advocates for diversity and inclusion amongst businesses and communities. The photographs and interviews were produced in a joint effort with visual artist Noemi Filetti.
ASHORE
Ashore is a short moving image piece filmed alongside the Dutch and German coastline, in the spring of 2020, when Europe’s lockdown due to the Covid-19 pandemic was just around the corner. Instead of focusing on the breaking news of a pandemic or residents of those seaside towns; however, it captures the coastline’s scenic everyday views. The landscape itself is put into the foreground, and human presence is only hinted at through existing architecture.
My goal was to depict natures’ beauty of the European coastline, thus showing a viewer what humanity stands to lose if we do not start taking climate change seriously and start changing the global economy. It acts as a visual record of our current coastline and questions how this landscape will change and what role sea-level rise will play towards it. I aimed to produce a thought-provoking piece that addresses global warming through a landscape lens. It should act as a humbling reminder that the human species is equally subject to natures evolution as any other creature residing on this planet. Even though humanity might adapt quickly to external circumstances, ultimately, nature itself will determine life on earth.
Work Experience
January 2017 - September 2017
September 2017 - September 2020
October 2020 - March 2022
March 2022 - now
Realizing the power and influence of imagery and learning the basics of photography through documenting my travels and working at nonprofits in Southeast Asia and South Africa.
Studying documentary photography and photojournalism as a Bachelor of Arts, focusing my own work on topics regarding migration and climate change.
Looking into the direction of photography ethics and mainly shooting collaborative projects where the photographed contribute towards the aesthetics and final outcomes of their portraits and images.
Moving from Chiang Mai, Thailand to Mae Sot and joining Lush Life Films, focusing on the production of social projects that address life at the Thai-Myanmar border.
