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Until You See Me (2025), digital photographs with paper additions
Photographed; Maz Hawj (Hmong), Xandra Avedikian (Armenian), and Yemi Davies (Yoruba)
Until You See Me is a documentary photography series and project that showcases Indigenous woman/AFAB individuals from different groups around the world. This project was sparked by the American education system’s reluctance to refer to Indigenous people and communities in the present, instead teaching about them as if they no longer exist. I grew up in the midwest hearing a lot of sterotypes being used generally, as if this certain idea/belief encapsulates the entire community. My own Indigenous heritage is something I try to highlight in my work, and I wanted to showcase my friends and colleagues in places that are comfortable and familiar to them while learning more about them and the cultures they come from.
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Alt for en Følelse av Normalitet/All For A Sense of Normalcy (2022), digital photographs with poems
The poems paired with these images were also used in the film POMEGRANATES (2024).
Alt for en Følelse av Normalitet is a set of images that were originally part of a series I retired called Elskerene, a series that explored different types of toxic “love” with poems written in Norsk inspired by the poet Halldis Moren Vesaas. This section of the series is a visual representation of changing yourself for the sake of belonging and connection. In order to be accepted, the person depicted in the photographs tries to become something they’re not; a mermaid.
One Hell of a Film Final cover art (2022), digital photograph
Photographed; the cast of “One Hell of a Film Final”