Me
I started photography with a packrat mentality; I was a hoarder of memories. I knew exactly how Jacques Henri Lartigue felt when he said, “what disgusts me is knowing that things can be lost.” I loved that I could look at a photograph and remember exactly where I was, who I was with, almost as if I was stepping through a window back into that moment.
But photography is so much more than just snapshots; it is a way of seeing. I'd be lying if I said I noticed half the things I see now when I walked down the street seven years ago. I can’t say I noticed the man who sits in his car his bare feet propped out of his car window, smoking and reading The Daily News or the way a neoclassical building on 86 and Park has a tortoise and hare motif. Photography if nothing else has given me an awareness of the world around me. It is as Dorothea Lange said, “While there is perhaps a province in which photographs can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.” This is the lasting effect photography has on me.
My Photography Timeline
2012, Returned to the City Parks Foundation + SummerStage as a a Junior Photographer.
2011, Featured in Fall 2011 + Sping 2012, Senior Fitness brochure.
2011, Featured in Dance Magazine’s review, “Armitage Gone! Dance & Dance Grand Moultrie.”
2011, Intern in the Marketing Department at the City Parks Foundation + SummerStage- As a member of the Marketing Department, I was responsible for taking and editing photographs for marketing materials including brochures, the official website, flickr, and Facebook.
2010, Intern in the Photography Studio at the Metropolitan Museum of Art- As a member of the Photography Studio, I was responsible for archiving the Metropolitan’s collection of negatives, filling image orders for scholars and other museums, and prepping scans.
2010, Recipient of the Donnette Atiyah Award for Excellence in Photography
2010, Recipient of the Ion Theodore Award for Excellence in Visual Arts
2010, Photograph was chosen for the cover of Insight 2010.
2009, Exhibited Artist in the MoMA exhibit, The Way I See It.
2009, Photographs taken during Photographing Musicians class, featured in the band Apollo Run’s poster and website.
2009-2010, Editor in Chief of Insight, Horace Mann’s annual photography publication.
2009-2010, Associate Photography Editor for The Horace Mann Record, Horace Mann’s weekly newspaper.
2009-2010, Club Officer of Activist Art Committee.
2009-2010, Photography Editor of the Review, the Horace Mann political magazine.
2009, Photographs taken during Photographing Musicians class, featured in the band Apollo Run’s poster and website.
2009, Photographing Musicians at the International Center of Photography, with Ms. Merri Cyr- During this class, we photographed musicians for album covers, publicity shots, and during their live shows. We worked in a documentary and controlled setting, having a photo shoot for our album covers. Finally, we explored environmental- and editorial-style portraiture.
2008-2009, Layout Editor of Insight, Horace Mann’s annual photography publication.
2008- 2010, Member of the Activist Art Committee- This year, we created the Food Stamp Challenge, where students volunteered to live on $21 of food which is equivalent to the usual weekly food stamp allowance. Students photographed their meals during a “normal” and then a $21 week. These photographs were eventually displayed in our gallery and related posters raising awareness of this condition were hung around the school.