AGE: 24
BASED IN: New York
NOMINATED BY: Richard Kern

I want to capture some type of energy that is pure and real. The past few years, I have begun to feel kind of dissociated from the world in a way where I’m not sure what’s real or not anymore. It’s not always in a heavy way though. It's pretty poetic and exciting sometimes.

Photography sometimes feels like my only genuine way of seeing and connecting to people. I like to get close with the subjects I’m shooting. I hope for the feeling of the images we make together to reflect a middle ground between our energies and where each of us are at in life.

My boyfriend, who I collaborate with sometimes, and I used to go on a lot of cross-country road trips during Covid. I always felt so small and insignificant driving through such vastness, in a really beautiful way. It made me question my existence and how much of it is just some kind of simulation. I feel like as my life unfolds the world is progressively giving up its intelligence to the technological order of things. Whether I understand it or not, it’s impossible to escape it seeping into the work in some way.