I am a Brooklyn-born, New Jersey–based photo artist, filmmaker, writer, and clinical psychologist whose work as a trauma therapist has profoundly shaped my practice. I focus on long-term projects that explore painful aspects of modern life, such as post-traumatic stress, racism, social injustice, and, most recently, environmental destruction. Before turning to photography and film, I studied art therapy at Pratt Institute and started as a handmade clay artist. Those early experiences, working directly with materials and later with patients, taught me that rupture leaves marks not only on bodies and minds but also on the surfaces we touch and shape.

This awareness continues to influence my art. My photographs bear their own scars, burned, torn, sutured, or reinforced with gold washi tape, not to hide damage but to reveal trauma and loss so that healing can begin. Collaboration and community remain central. As co-creator of Frontline Arts, I worked with veterans to transform military uniforms into handmade paper, an experience that culminated in By Our Own Hand, a site specific installation at the Montclair Art Museum. These collective acts of making extend my studio practice into shared moments of mourning and repair.

My approach is guided by psychoanalysis, which trained me to listen for the unspeakable, and by Japanese traditions such as kintsugi and calligraphy, which honor repair and imperfection. I draw inspiration from Hiroshi Sugimoto’s meditations on time, Doris Salcedo’s sculptural mourning, Anselm Kiefer’s scarred landscapes of memory, and Richard Avedon’s honest and vulnerable portraits.

Alongside photography, I have created several short art films and directed two award winning feature documentaries, Leave No Soldier and The Mourning After. Film and video allow me to expand my photographic work into time and motion.

My photographs, writing, and interviews have appeared in Tricycle, Lenscratch, Fotonostrum, Grazia, Borderline Press’ Facsimile, Lens Magazine, FLOAT, LandEscape Art Review, Dodho Magazine, The Hand Magazine, Analog Forever, Vostok Magazine, and Overlapse’s Stir the Pot. I received a 2024 Puffin Foundation Artist Grant and a 2021 New Jersey State Council on the Arts Fellowship, and I was recognized as both a Top 50 Photographer and a Finalist for Critical Mass from 2022 to 2024. My series The Afterlife of Dolls was featured on New Jersey PBS’s State of the Arts, and Portraits of the Precarious Earth appeared in “The Art of Repair” on Rhode Island PBS’s Art Inc.

I have held solo exhibitions at the Newport Art Museum, R.I.; the Montclair Art Museum, N.J.; the Morris Museum, N.J.; the Passaic Arts Center, N.J.; Mira Forum, Porto, Portugal; and Espaço D’Artes, Lisbon, Portugal, as well as in SaveArtSpace’s billboard project in Brooklyn, N.Y.