“My photographs explore balance, strength, and the many forms of resilience carried within the Black body. A young girl steadies books upon her head, an image that holds both the elegance of tradition and the weight of learning. A man presses a barbell into the sky, using his body to defy and present power. For some viewers, these gestures may read as universal: acts of focus, persistence, and growth. For others, especially within Black communities, they echo deeper histories: education as a hard-won inheritance, strength as survival, and the body as both archive and testimony. Together, the two images form a dialogue between knowledge and labor, grace and force, the individual and the collective. My aim is not to dictate a single meaning, but to create a space where multiple readings can coexist, where viewers see both the literal and the symbolic, the personal and the cultural. In this way, the work reflects how resilience is lived and recognized differently, yet remains universally understood. My inspirations include Solange, Frida Kahlo, and Carrie Mae Weems artists who use self-representation, family, and domestic spaces to explore identity, power, and truth. Like them, I seek to capture organic moments, highlight texture and pattern, and create photographs that both document and transform lived experience into visual storytelling. My submission of these photographs offers a layered perspective that connects the personal with the collective, the intimate with the universal.”
Education
2025 Digital Photography 101 Certification
Universal Class, Online
2025 Photography 101: Beginner to Intermediate
Universal Class, Online
2020 B.A. in Graphic Design and Media Arts
Southern New Hampshire University, Manchester, NH
Exhibitions
2025 Where We Meet (Group)
Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, Virginia Beach, Va
2025 Bodies of Labor: Hands that Built a Nation (Group)
Black History Museum & Cultural Center of Virginia, Richmond, Va
2024 To The Max! (Group)
Suffolk Art Gallery, Suffolk, Va
