Subject Tew Change is a documentary film series that invites Baltimore artists to lead their own episodes, telling stories shaped by their creative practice, lived experience, and community ties.

The series is anchored by The Mixing Bowl, an Arts Collective gathering that brings artists together through food and conversation to explore themes of art, community, and public health. Footage from the first Mixing Bowl weaves the episodes together, emphasizing relationship-building as both subject and method.

Moving across genres and mediums, Subject Tew Change examines how storytelling functions as a connective force — nurturing networks, honoring local knowledge, and reflecting Baltimore as a site of ongoing cultural production.

Tracing Steps: Baby Laurence Legacy Project is a long-term documentation and storytelling project led by tap dancer and interdisciplinary artist Brinae Ali. The project centers the legacy of Baby Laurence, using performance, archival research, and oral history to preserve and reinterpret tap dance traditions across generations.

My role in the project focuses on visual documentation and filmmaking, capturing rehearsals, performances, and process as they unfold in both institutional and community spaces. Through video and photography, the work emphasizes embodiment, transmission of knowledge, and the relationship between personal history and collective memory.

The project functions as both documentation and creative record, foregrounding movement as a living archive and honoring tap dance as a site of cultural continuity.

This body of work centers artists, performers, and creative labor in moments of expression, preparation, and presence. Moving between portraiture and live performance, the images emphasize embodiment, intimacy, and relationship—between artist and audience, body and space, subject and documenter.

Rather than isolating a single decisive moment, the work holds space for process, vulnerability, and collaboration, reflecting an ongoing engagement with creative communities and the environments that shape them.

This series observes the built environment as a record of human presence, often without centering people themselves. These images move through streets, interiors, and in-between spaces shaped by use, neglect, care, and time. Architecture, graffiti, light, and debris become quiet indicators of lived experience, revealing how place holds memory, tension, and traces of daily life.

This work is less about spectacle and more about attention: noticing how environments speak, even when no one is present.

These photographs explore the space between representation and abstraction, using natural environments as a starting point rather than a subject to be recorded. Through shifts in focus, light, and movement, the work emphasizes perception, mood, and materiality—inviting the viewer to linger in moments that resist easy definition.