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.
Here are some portraits I shot with Matthew and Akil back in February. Check them out on Instagram (Matthew, Akil) to see some more of their awesome style. Matthew Matthew’s a photographer too and you can see their work here.
Here are some photos from week 2 of PNDP. The assignment was to shoot dawn and write six sentences about it. Of course, it rained all week, so everyone’s dawn pictures were pretty dingy. At six in the morning, the sky is just barely beginning to lighten to a pearly gray, but work has already…
I took some shots for Drs. Melody Hoffmann and Raechel Tiffe, the women behind feminist pop culture & politics podcast ‘Feminist Killjoys, PHD’. They’re vegan, feminist, punk, activist scholars, both of whom have degrees in Critical Media Studies. Learn more about them at their website, listen to them on SoundCloud or iTunes, or follow their…
The end of Program for Narrative and Documentary Practice last semester culminated in a multi-week project about a subject of our choice. I chose hair, and started calling at barber shops and salons to see if they’d let me take pictures there. I learned a lot about hair, met a lot of cool hair stylists,…
Tufts has a tradition called the illumination ceremony. Everyone gets an unlit candle, one chosen person lights theirs and touches candles with another person, and that person passes the flame on until everyone’s candle is lit. There are two illumination ceremonies every year: one in the fall to welcome new students, and one in the spring…
Another from the archive — Sarabande’s fall 2018 show. I shot that show a few months after I had back surgery and was still pretty early in my recovery. I felt uncertain about saying yes to taking photos of a dance show, because I knew it would require a lot of hurrying back and forth…