This three-volume work portrays a non-linear narrative of a three-year journey through the anonymous street, reduced to one location, and finally, one individual. This work was made from 2017-2020, and was first materialized in the form of three books.

Movement Study I: Street Ballet is a distant, peering typology study of patterned movement in occupied transient urban landscapes. Sixteen frames show a decontextualized street scene - a “stage”, a repeated gesture, a contained walking pattern.

Through this scavenger hunt, Movement Study II: 40.752200 -73.993422, a temporary construction facade, and populated pedestrian corner, was my chosen place, whereupon I was physically closer to pedestrians. I repeatedly returned to this corner and watched people move through it. It has a transient cross section of tourists, midtown business people, addicts (there are two detox centers nearby), everyday New Yorkers, and performers on their way to auditions (a popular audition space is a block away).

After over a year photographing on this corner, one person caught my attention and agreed to be my muse. B Hawk became the subject and final component of the work, entitled Movement Study III: Circling a Hawk. The work centers around B Hawk’s public and private life as they transition from identifying as a gay man to a nonbinary femme trans activist. We created a theatrical narrative of their life that begins at the place where I saw them. The final image in Movement Study III is the location of the first picture in Movement Study I.

The narrative operates cyclically and is a narrowing perception of the urban experience.

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Photograph Magazine

Bird in Flight Magazine

Hyperallergic

Awarded the Houston Center for Photography Fellowship solo exhibition

Edition of 50.