Baker Artist Portfolios

My photographic work is an exploration of generational legacies, inherited trauma, and the landscapes—both physical and psychological—that shape our identities. Through topographics and the built environment, I document the remnants of history, migration, and displacement, seeking to understand how memory is embedded in place. Travel serves as both a method and a metaphor in my practice, allowing me to investigate the intersections of the human condition, existential longing, and the semiotics of belonging. My images capture the tension between familiarity and estrangement, between what is inherited and what is lost. In examining the echoes of personal and collective histories, I seek to reveal the silent weight of lineage and the ways in which land, architecture, and absence hold stories that resist erasure. Photography, for me, is a means of witnessing, of standing at the threshold between past and present, presence and absence. My work does not attempt to resolve these contradictions but rather to illuminate them, to sit in the space between knowing and not knowing, belonging and longing.