My photographs derive from visceral reactions to danger. I explore fear through the suspension of precipitous moments. When interrogating events, I link gaze, cause, reaction and effect. I’m most concerned with exposing women’s safety issues as they relate to isolation, health and surveillance.

I wield the camera’s apparatus in order capture evidence of alarming occurrences applying to strangers and the body. In recreating parts of these instances, I aim to bring light to the constancy of safety considerations in my decisions and actions. I look through the camera as if I am in control where once I was not.

In my piece, Abandoned Sanctuary, I focus on lustful, unwelcome observation in private spaces and the failure to make a space safe, restful, and habitable. I revisit and manufacture this space, tracing the failure to a cause. Through my control of the lighting, props, camera angle, time of the shoot, camera settings, cleanliness, and shadows, I reveal the act of voyeurism as endured by the subject of desire. I examine my presence in the form of remnant pieces deserted in seized locations.

In other works, such as Unsuspecting Model, I appear in the setting to challenge the prioritization of pleasure and viewer. In media and reality, the person behind a camera is afforded anonymity and safety even when they do not respect that of others. I wish to restore fairness to these situations, even if only in contempt of futility.

It is my aim to re-contextualize scenarios in which my safety was stolen from me and shed light on my internal experiences. I freeze, shrink, and frame environments that were once consuming. My work is a retrospective confrontation of panic in the face of threats.