Photography

Knackerrd Portraits

Knackerred Portraits is a self-portrait series. It speaks to the challenges I face as a female athlete. It is about injury, womanhood, internal and external pain, worthiness, struggle, judgement, false expectations and self-doubt. The editorial look of the photographs is in response to the pressure I and many other women feel to look and perform a certain way.

Concussion Headpieces

Concussion Headpieces Photo Series, with wearable headpieces.

These headpieces are both responses to the concussion crisis in American Football. Both of these wearable sculptures are intended to only be worn by a person who has experienced a concussion. This model was chosen because he has been playing football for his entire life, up until he was forced to retire early in his collegiate career due to concussions. It was important to me for the model to be one who understood the toll that concussions have on the body and who was as committed to the cause as I was. The different photographs are emblematic of different themes in order to help the viewer understand the meaning behind the photos. Drawing from "high school senior football player photoshoot", using angles to emphasize the form of the sculpture as it lays on the head, playing with the idea of motion and using dramatic portraiture to push the emotion onto the viewer. 

Intimate Landscapes: Scars

December 2018

35mm Film, (Documentation of film prints)

Obscuring scars on various parts of the body to create landscapes. All of these scars were caused by an athletic injury or surgery due to an athletic injury.

Environmental Portraits

October 2018, 35mm Film

Representations Through a 500mm Lens

December 2018

35mm Film (Documentation of film prints)

Photos shot during a Carnegie Mellon football game with a 500mm lens.

Concussion Portraits

February 2018

A typology is the result of the classification of "things" according the their characteristics. This is a typology of Carnegie Mellon University Football players. The characteristic they have in common is not visible. It is that each of these players have sustained one or more concussions while playing football.

The idea of taking portraits of these players was to take a picture of their injury. The effects of a concussion can not be seen from the outside, but these portraits force the viewer to scan their faces, look into their eyes, and examine the players to look for signs of brain damage. I am forcing the viewers to put themselves in an uncomfortable position to provoke thoughts about this particular injury, and to create a conversation about how concussions are treated in American society.