Baker Artist Portfolios

I grew up near Coney Island and was a photo kid who came of age in public school darkrooms. Photography has always been a constant in my life. After working as a professional photographer in New York City for a decade, I moved to Baltimore, where I earned my MFA in photography and now teach at the Maryland Institute College of Art.

My work centers on portraiture, often made in specific places to describe a need for belonging, open space, and recreation. Questions about generational memory, interconnectedness, and climate drive my work. Much of what I do involves collaborating with the people I meet—whether through conversations, ongoing interviews, or handing people cameras to contribute to projects. In 2022, NYC Parks exhibited my beach portraits from the series "I Can Smell the Water" as a site-specific installation in Manhattan Beach Park as large-scale prints to coincide with the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Sandy. I was awarded the Best Photography Thesis for the 2022 Global Design Graduate Show for "Skatepark Baltimore," a photo-based collaborative art project that centers queer and trans-identifying skateboarders in Baltimore, MD. I’ve run free photography workshops locally and internationally. My work has appeared in The New York Times, Huffington Post, and Entertainment Weekly, and I am a contributing photographer to BmoreArt magazine.