In 2017, Tufts Student Accessibility Services put out a call for filmmaking students to make a documentary about artists with disabilities at Tufts. Filmmaker Benjamin Hosking and I interviewed School of the Museum of Fine Arts and Tufts students about their experiences with art and disability. Here’s the result. The documentary has since screened at several disability conferences and is being shown in classes and trainings in the greater Boston area.
It’s disheartening to fully apprehend just how alone you are in your body, how alone you are in your head. You already know you’re alone, but you don’t really believe it until you experience it in such an extreme way.
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Tufts Torn Ticket II (the musical theater subset of 3Ps) put on “[title of show]”, an extremely meta musical, for first-year orientation. I shot the dress rehearsal. It got pretty silly.
This gory pill art project, The Wound Will Not Heal, started with this mask I made at a Halloween Open Hacks at Technocopia. Jessica Sadlier suggested doing white tissue papier-mache over a painted underlayer for a creepy, realistic skin look. That mask got me thinking about other ways to use this skin effect, and that…
Here’s another show from last year, in a performance style I had never imagined myself photographing: pantomime. Yes, Tufts has a mime troupe, and they booked me to photograph their spring 2018 show. Here’s what I witnessed.
Hashtag throwback Thursday, I guess? I’m so behind on sharing older work, but I still want to share it. There’s some good stuff in there! Surprisingly, this isn’t the last SoC show I shot, even though I’d already graduated. I don’t photograph dance as often, but when I do, I’m always impressed by dancers’ physical abilities….
Here’s the thing about tennis: It’s hard to take a decent tennis photo. It’s even harder to take a decent tennis photo where the player is making a flattering face. I took these for the Tufts Daily in April last year.