Contradicting Beauties

My photographic work throughout my career has continually investigated themes pertaining to socio-economics, race, class, education and identity. I seek to question our personal connections to these subjects and how one might justify and rationalize their existence to themselves and others. I am interested in decoding these issues by employing the use of metaphor and investigating the point of intersection between these dichotomies. The series Contradicting Beauties investigates these issues as they pertain to Cape Town, South Africa.

5. Migration




Migration has been the subject of great controversy around the world. The Crossings  on the English Channel, migrants in the
USA, Europe, Africa, Asia, Central  America, and around the Globe has been the source  of investigation in current work. Being an 
immigrant from Kenya, to England and the U.S.A. has reflected on  many of the concerns one has to face,that of adjusting  to another world.
The body of work in this Project address some of these issues. The materials used are textiles as this was my major several decades ago at

Home At Last

I am intrigued with the idea of the external and internal, the contradictions and connections that complete us, and how they shape existence and memory. This body of work, Home at Last, documents my deceased grandmother’s crumbling home as it deteriorates and collapses, while attempting to retrace the emotional quality of my childhood memories through what still remains.

Ruins, I

This installation was performed with members of Raw Silk. Made from a 100-foot roll of 16mm film shot in the Walters Art museum, the objects seen in the film were illuminated with conservation-appropriate lighting. The footage maps archaeological eras through chronological and proportional 16mm footage -- each frame of the film represents approximately 1.6 years.

Baltimore By Storm

Baltimore is a short, comedic, musical absurdist documentary about the city and its weird community of creatives. It is currently sitting on my 2009 MacBook Pro waiting for me to upgrade to a computer that can handle long, large, and intricately cut high definition video files. The film features live concert footage from Joe Squared where I have been a regular performer for over ten years, stand up comedy, interviews, and street and wildlife photography. Some of the footage I shot myself, but a lot was also shot by photographer Keston DeCoteau. 

Seeing Baltimore

I grew up in suburban Montgomery County. I went to DC, not Baltimore, if I wanted to go to the city. For college I moved to Catonsville and for the first time I spent real time in Baltimore. The after college I moved to Mt. Vernon and have not yet grown tired of photographing this one of a kind place.

Remembering the Stains on the Sidewalk

For each murder that occurred in Baltimore City in 2016, I return to the scene of the crime on the exact day a the exact time one year after the violence took place. While there I take a photo to commemorate the life that was lost there exactly one year ago. I post these photos within 24 hours of taking them to my Facebook and Instagram pages so that the community can also take a moment out of their day to pause and reflect on the individual.

Tillie & George

The series Tillie & George documents the 101 & 95 year old couple's last two years of life together until the death of Tillie in 2016. The work is a look into their day-to-day existence and what constitutes quality of life. By seeking to reveal their physical limitations, their dependence on each other, their frustrations and the confrontation of their mortality, I aim to also allow the viewer to see their own relationship to this reality whether it be past, present or future.
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