Ephemeral Monuments

Exhibition at Hawk + Hive

Ephemeral Monuments is pulled from several series I've created during a year long study of the American continents. While traveling from the Antarctic to the Arctic circle, through seventeen countries in the Americas, I've documented dwellings, how human habitation responds to and reflects harsh landscapes, and the means with which societies adapt to unfamiliar climates, both cultural and physical. One of the themes that emerged during my travels, partly from my background as an architectural photographer, partly from having documented humankind's relentless push against the natural world, was the imposition of ourselves on landscape. In a time of ever increasing ecological pressure, the presence, or absence, of the remnants of civilization became a running theme throughout. Out of the landscape grow dwellings or ceremonial structures that are either in harmony or incongruous to their surroundings. But these additions are ephemeral, the slow push towards entropy being a constant threat of erasure. In these places where we’ve inserted our presence, nature struggles for rebalance, and we watch and picture what will still remain after equilibrium is reestablished.

HAWK + HIVE

Andes, NY

November 4, 2023 - January 28, 2024

Opening Reception: Saturday, November 4, 2023 1 - 5 pm

Developing Story

Exhibition at Cassilhaus

Developing Story: Five Years of the Film Photo Award celebrates the achievements of 21 extraordinary artists who received this film grant and went on to create impressive and important bodies of work.  The Film Photo Award supports both student and professional photographers by providing film and processing for proposed projects.  The works presented here in this celebratory exhibition at Cassilhaus represent a limited offering from each artist, but together they help to demonstrate the importance of the film medium on contemporary art photography and the artists who treasure it.   

CASSILHAUS

Chapel Hill, NC

October 8, 2023 - January 28, 2024

Opening Reception: Sunday, October 8, 2023 2 - 5 pm.

Closing Reception: Saturday, January 13, 2024 7 - 9:30 pm

Visionary Project Award

I am very happy to announce I have been selected as one of 3 recipients of the Film Photo Grant this fall. The grant will allow me to start working on my new photo project, In A Tidal Delta, which will explore notions of borders and hybrid identity through the medium of salt printing.

The Film Photo Award provides three distinct grants of Kodak Professional Film and complimentary film processing by Griffin Editions to photographers who demonstrate a serious commitment to the field and are motivated to continue the development of still, film-based photography in the 21st century.

Arles’ Night of the Year

For 16 years, the Rencontres d’Arles Night of the Year has projected around 30-40 projects—the festival’s favorite artists and photographers, carte blanche to institutions—in a loop on several large screens. This great nighttime stroll would have taken place in July on the site of the former Étienne paper mill and “The Edge of Knowing” was one of the selected projects to be presented. Since the 51st Rencontres d’Arles was cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the Night of the year projects were only presented online.

“The Edge of Knowing” at Robert Klein Gallery

EXHIBITION

February 1 - February 28, 2020

Robert Klein Gallery (38 Newbury St)

Opening reception and book signing with the artist
Saturday, February 1, 2 - 5PM

And a great article and Q&A about the book on COMMON EDGE.

Lagos Photo Festival: Passports

African Artist Foundation

Lagos, Victoria Island, Nigeria

October 27 - November 15, 2019

The first exhibition of The Edge of Knowing project will take place in Lagos Nigeria, during the 10th Edition of the Lagos Photo Festival at the African Artists Foundation.

Passports is the theme of the 10th edition of LagosPhoto Festival and it intends to delve into the constraints and prospects of the most important official document a human being holds. This year’s edition aims to bring alive, an alternative global environment in which artists of different nationalities are invited to explore options of creating a fluid and permeable world, where nationality, gender, and historical imbalances are secondary. What are the options of living freely in a world that will be determined by borders?

The Edge of Knowing is the culmination of a year-long journey from Antarctica to the Arctic; a journey is undertaken with the goal of understanding the places that from the vantage point of the United States, are often simply thought of as being beyond “America.” A collection of photographs and essays that tried to redefine the American conceit of an idealistic, utopian dream as a pan-American vision that is shared across the furthest extremes of the continents. Too often political borders represent the limits of curiosity and imagination.TheEdge of Knowingtakes us beyond the boundaries that traditionally define national identity. The results are an exploration of places both foreign and familiar. All share the unique physical characteristics that shape the landscape of the Americas and the rich indigenous imprint of the pre-Columbian world

New Book Coming Soon

I am very excited to announce that my newest photo book, The Edge of Knowing is nearing publication. It will be published by Kehrer Verlag this fall and debut at this year's Paris Photo. The book is a collaboration between myself and my husband, Ian Webster, who wrote the text and created custom illustrations. 

The Kickstarter presale was a success and got fully funded! Thank you to all the backers!!!

Those still interested in pre-ordering have the opportunity to purchase a special limited-edition "director's cut" version of the book, which features pages hand-cut by us, as well as a selection of limited edition prints, from the BOOKS section of my website.

ABOUT THE BOOK:

The Edge of Knowing is the culmination of a year-long journey from Antarctica to the Arctic; a journey undertaken with the goal of understanding the places that from the vantage point of the United States, are often simply thought of as being beyond "America."

This collection of photographs and essays redefines the American conceit of an idealistic, utopian dream as a pan-American vision that is shared across the furthest extremes of the continents. Too often political borders represent the limits of curiosity and imagination. The Edge of Knowing takes us beyond the boundaries that traditionally define national identity. The results are an exploration of places both foreign and familiar. All share the unique physical characteristics that shape the landscape of the Americas, and the rich indigenous imprint of the pre-Columbian world.

Greenpeace Photo Award 2018

I am very excited to announce that my project UPROOTED has been selected as one of the seven projects competing for this year's Greenpeace Photo Award.

Early this year Greenpeace Switzerland, together with Geo Magazine, nominated 20 photographers from all over the world to write a project proposal that would explore the environmental issues we are facing today. From those 20 projects, seven were selected and we were asked to do a 3-minute video piece describing the project that would be shared with the public.

The projects compete for two awards: the jury award and the public award. And for this I’d like to ask for your help = Please Vote for me! It's simple and quick, no need to register or open an account. You just need to input the name and email address and then confirm when Greenpeace sends you the confirmation email. Thank you all for your support!