This 2019 solo exhibition “Kin” was awarded to me after winning Exposure Photography Festivals “emerging photographer of the year” award the previous year. 

Famed neurologist Oliver Sacks described the need for memory as a need for identity. He explains that imaginative memory can be understood as a subconscious process that fills in memory gaps in the absence of external verification in efforts to meet that need for identity. This earlier series was inspired by my interest in learning about the enactment of imagination and memory through photographic traces. I visually examined this by both digitally and physically re-working my family archives that I identified with and giving way to my imaginative reading of them existing in ethereal otherworldly spaces.