It has been a wild two years. One in which I made very little work and engaged with photography almost only through my teaching. But I’m back bitches!
Shortly before my last post over two years ago, my mom’s cancer came back. I also discovered I was pregnant, only to lose the baby around week 13. I entered a period of deep depression, started therapy, started medication, and slowly dragged myself back to life. It has taken another year to start feeling active and creative again.
Most recently, I’ve started to directly engage with my mom’s cancer by collaborating with her to create a series of images that examine her life through the lens of her pancreatic cancer. She’s always been interested in writing and journaling about her life, and I, of course, like to take photographs.
So far, the work has been well received, with several initial images being accepted into a couple of exhibitions. Subsequently, the work was awarded First Place in the exhibition Parallax: A Women’s Photography Exhibition at the Gormley Gallery of Notre Dame of Maryland University in Baltimore, MD, as well as a Purchase Award from the University of North Dakota for the exhibition Visions in Photography: Stories of Now at the Myers Gallery. The work as a whole also received an Honorable Mention for the Lucie Foundation’s fine art scholarship. Both my mother and I are honored to share the work with others.
That’s it for now - but I’ll leave you with this: FUCK CANCER.
I felt like a five year old. 2022. Received the Purchase Award from The University of North Dakota.