“We are born and have our being in a place of memory. We chart our lives by everything we remember from the mundane moment to the majestic. We know ourselves through the art and act of remembering. Memories offer us a world where there is no death, where we are sustained by rituals of regard and recollection”

-bell hooks

 

In the words of bell hooks, who has shaped much of my thought and work, we learn of the humanity situated within memory. Photography gives our personal archives a visual presence. Click through below to check out my photography work!