"Magazine Cover" uploading this extremely late but it needs to be shown! With this I wanted to expand on my studio lighting skills, and posing in order to hone my editorial skills!
Model: @dbbrightest
#northcarolinaphotographer #editoral #posing
Exploring the characters Archetype (Unlikely hero/Black Best Friend, Tragic heroine, Villainess) visually reimagines popular tropes in today's media. Though staged photography and intentional editing I create space for these tropes to truly shine.
Models: @dbbrightest (1st and 3rd), @asarahhphoto
#conceptualphotography #stagedphotography #visualstorytelling #literaryarchetypes #modernmyths #creativeportraiture #photoeditingart #artdirection #editorialstyle
"The Weekend"
Playing around in the studio "The Weekend" is a small mini series playing around with portraiture, lighting techniques, body language/symbolism, and fashion.
Model: @gia_rodriguez31
#photography #moodlighting #miniseries
I'm really late on this but I figured I'd still post this even if it's passed! A body of work I exhibited for photography capstone!
"Love, In Translation" is a series that combines photography and text to examine love in its many forms. Self-love, romantic, platonic, and familial relationships form a core part of the shared human experience, an emotional thread that exists across the world, transcending culture and language.
This work raises questions about the nature of love, what it looks like, how it's felt, and how it's communicated. Through documenting others, the series includes individual perspectives and stories that explore the emotional and relational dimensions of the subject. Each portrait pairs visual and written elements to reflect how love is uniquely expressed or experienced by the person photographed.
Love in Translation is a collection of works that reflects the complexity and depth of love through both image and text, offering viewers a moment to reflect on their own connections, histories, and expressions of love in relation to those of others.
#lovephotography❤️ #exhibition #discovery #efflorescence #love #photography
This photo series, "No One Around", looks at the emotional contrast of being alone at night, the freedom it can bring and the loneliness it often carries. I wanted to capture that contrast by photographing empty urban spaces such as parking lots, roads, and sidewalks, places usually filled with people. In their emptiness, these spaces take on a dreamlike quality that feels both peaceful and unsettling.
I drew inspiration from photographers like Todd Hido and Gregory Crewdson, who use light, isolation, and blurred figures to evoke emotion. Their work influenced my approach, helping me think of this series in a more cinematic way. Instead of explaining things directly, I wanted to suggest the feeling of these spaces through the way they were composed.
Technically, I shot at night using long exposures and intentional blur to create ghostly human forms. These blurred figures show the emotional tension between presence and absence between the freedom of being alone and the feeling of being unnoticed. I also used ambient lighting, like street lamps, to add a sense of quiet reflection.
One of the main challenges was shooting in low light while maintaining both clarity and atmosphere. I learned to better use manual settings, especially shutter speed, to control light and shadow without losing detail. This experience deepened my understanding of how space, light, and timing can tell a story of the night, and of the emotions tied to being alone in it. #fineartphotographer #photography #thoughtful #artphotography #art #photomanipulations
