For as long as I can remember my eyes have been snapping still frames and videos of the world around me.  Always accompanied by a soundtrack, the world has been seen through the viewfinder of my mind. A viewfinder that focuses as much on emotion as it does the subject. Now let me take you on a visual road trip to see pictures from my world. They are everyday things seen in a different light. Seen by photographic eyes. My photographic eyes. Eyes developed in a a basement darkroom, matured and inspired by years of pain and hardship.

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You see, I am a camera.

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I see the world in gritty black and white, and a lightshow of color.
In singular moments, street scenes, characters, stories, and songs.

I see the details others pass by.
The beauty in the broken.

I see a shot that sings me a song, or hear a lyric and a photo is born.
I see injustices to fight, truths to tell, and lives to change with a photograph.

 

As an artist I see myself as a visual storyteller. A singer/songwriter with a camera instead of a guitar.​ And everything I see, each moment I capture, every story I tell through my lens, these are the notes I string together to create my photographic symphony. A composition I'll be creating until I physically can't click the shutter anymore. And when that day comes, those moments, those stories, that photographic symphony, that will be my greatest legacy.

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For, I am a photographer.

A music nerd. A cat lover. A baseball junkie. A poetry enthusiast. A creative activist.

I am a daughter. A sister. A friend.

A dreamer. A wanderer. A storyteller. A survivor.

A flower child with a rock & roll heart.

I am a young woman, and I am a child.

I am just one mind.

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But most of all, I am a photograph.
I am a camera.

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I have woken to find out that I am "the eyes of the world", and this is my "anthem of discovery".

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Embrace it, because this is who I am. Just a girl from New York making art out of pain, singing sadness to
the sky, and sharing what she sees at the intersection of art and life.