I’m a multidisciplinary artist and storyteller using photography, poetry, and film to archive Black life as ritual, resistance, and radical imagination. Rooted in the South Side of Chicago and shaped by global Black traditions, my work centers memory, movement, and the sacred beauty of everyday survival.
My camera is a witness.
I photograph to preserve what breathes beneath the surface—the textures of life that don’t always announce themselves: a glance across a sidewalk, the quiet gravity of a waiting face, the blur of joy in motion. Whether I’m documenting nightlife, stillness, or sport, my images seek a kind of intimacy that lives between light and shadow.
Across my photography practice, I work in street, portrait, landscape, nightlife, and action formats. I move with the same rhythm I bring to my poetry and collage—always listening for what the moment is trying to say before I capture it. I let light speak in fragments and let shadow linger. I don’t ask the moment to explain itself—I try to make space for it to testify.
All of it—action, stillness, nightlife, sports, joy and exhaustion—is part of the archive. I shoot to preserve a living vocabulary of our everyday myths: who we are when we’re not being watched, who we become when we are.
