I create images to transform emotion, memory, and silence into visual poetry.
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Photography
Where do you find inspiration?I find inspiration in faces, in silence, in the spaces between words. In the way light falls on someone who doesn’t know they’re being seen. I find it in memory—especially the kind that hurts a little. In the streets that raised me, and the ones that don’t know me yet. In people who carry stories in their eyes. In truth, even when it’s uncomfortable. In everything that feels real.
What would you do with $25,000?I would hold my first personal exhibition in the US
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