(Images 1, 2, 3) – Being non-binary, I’ve found a powerful personal connection to the LGBTQ+ community. Having been raised in an extremely transphobic household, I found it very hard growing up to form a strong sense of identity, having been taught everything about myself was wrong. So pride month thus became very important to me in my teen years, as it gave me a chance to remind myself to take pride in my identity and see I was a part of a much larger community, that there wasn’t something wrong me with. I was prompted to document pride, given 2019 marked the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots and within my work, I wanted to show how the far the LGBTQ+ community had come in the last 50 years in terms of equality, love and resistance. 

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(Images 4, 5, 6) – With my still-life images, I wanted to explore a branch of photography I wasn’t confident in and look to increase my skill set. Wanting a strong theme, I chose to look at notion of life & death through bones, decaying plants, fresh flowers, bullets and Victorian era tintype photographs. This I contrasted with bright backgrounds, which I felt juxtaposed themselves sharply with the much more darker notions of death, violence and decay in my work.

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(Images 7, 8, 9) – These images formed a much larger body of work exploring who am I, and how I interact with the world around me. Given the personal nature of this work, it later developed to also include self-portraiture through which I look to explore my gender and how I present. I took a lo-fi approach to this work using traditional methods of film photography using unique film emulsions, expired film, plastic camera’s etc. All of these built a body of work that was highly unpredictable and gave me such unique photographs.