Bio

I approach photography and film as a way of reflecting on a childhood shaped by statistics and care found in unexpected places. As the child of an incarcerated parent, I grew up inside probabilities that suggested limitation long before I understood them. I was raised as the son of two formerly incarcerated parents, learning early how systems attempt to determine outcomes before lives are fully lived.

Visiting my father and the men who surrounded him at Angola State Penitentiary, I witnessed how systems aim to constrain the Black body both physically and imaginatively, and how morality is far more complicated than the binaries used to define it. Right and wrong coexisted there, often inseparable. Many of my father’s friends were men I called uncles—father figures, people the world frequently reduces to statistics or moral failure. In their presence, I learned tenderness and discipline, when to fight and when not to, how to play chess and Pac-Man, how to laugh and laugh hard, and how to dream while living within restriction.

That tension continues to guide my practice. I am interested in how dignity persists under pressure, how morality is assigned and withheld, how care takes shape in spaces not built to hold it, and how communities continue to imagine themselves forward.

I am currently studying at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. My work leans toward imagining futures left untold, spaces of rest, peace, and love that were denied to those who came before me. In my practice, imagination is not an escape, but an offering: a way of making room for what was withheld, and for what remains possible.