STATEMENT

My photographs depict a visual odyssey of a devastating period when I experienced an unexpected and profound loss, the kind that destroyed my self-assurance and emotional equilibrium. For a period of 860 days, my husband left our family to live with his mistress. Suddenly, I was steeped in a new normal that was abnormal, navigating terrain akin to a rollercoaster ride that I had never stood in line for. There was no beginning, middle, or end; there just ‘was.’ I felt isolated and alone. Time became endless—and smothering. Everything seemed impossible.

Consciously reliving this experience to make this work is both difficult and cathartic—a profound journey of a harrowing past, a bittersweet act of peeling back layers of pain, and an avenue for solace and communion. Although it is personal, it is meant to speak more universally, to the what happens to us when we are face with a life event that we never say coming and find difficult to maneuver through. In creating this work, I heal my fractured self and extend a  lifeline to those navigating parallel paths of debilitating and unexpected sorrow, whispering that they are not alone in their anguish.

Notes: This is work is a series and a dos-a-dos book project. The images here have won awards both as the half of the book that is finished, as well as for the photography alone.

Awards:

  • 2025 Mira Mobile Prize - Top 50 - “shiver” from when the stars fell from the sky

  • 2024 Tokyo International Foto Awards, HM - Book (Fine Art)

  • 2024 Lens Culture BW Awards - Finalist/Selections from when the stars fell from the sky

  • 2024 Exposure One DW Photographer of the Year Awards - Honorable Mention, Fine Art/Selections from when the stars fell from the sky

  • 2024 Exposure One DW Photographer of the Year Awards - Nominee, Conceptual/Selections from when the stars fell from the sky

  • 2024 BBA Photography Prize,Longlist (Top 50)/Selections from when the stars fell from the sky

  • 2024 Prix de la Photographie Paris, Silver-Book (Other)

Exhibitions:

  • Mira Mobile Prize, Mira Forum, Porto, Portugal (Shiver; Upcoming: May 2025)

  • The Photographer’s Eye Collective Gallery, Escondido, CA (March-April, 2025; Series Solo)

  • Life’s Work: 21 Women Photographers, LA Photo Curator (January 2025; Virtual)

  • Portraits, SEC4P, Greenville, SC (Trapped/Scream; Nov-Dec 2023)

Other:

  • The Griffin Musuem’s Member in Focus feature (Various Selections; May 2024)

  • Duncan Miller Gallery’s Your Daily Photograph (Furusato 1; September 12,2024)

  • 2023 LensCulture BW Awards Editor’s Pick (She/River; September 2023)

 

This postcard depicts a subset of the images from this project. The full suite of images should be online by May 5th.