My interest in how people and bodies are represented in photography has led me to work with movement artists, athletes, and performers, as well as to develop my own personal projects. Traditional approaches to photographing the body often rely on narrow and familiar conventions.
In my practice, I make a deliberate effort to move beyond these habits.
By stepping away from expected ways of showing the body, I aim to create images that feel honest, respectful, and empowering. I want to broaden how different bodies are seen and to question the limited standards of beauty and the social expectations that often shape them.
Through this work, I hope to support a more inclusive and representative visual culture.
patriarchy
“Our task is to make trouble, to stir up potent response to devastating events, as well as to settle troubled waters and rebuild quiet places”
Donna Harraway.
hypoxia
Hypoxia is a condition in which there is a deficiency of oxygen in a specific environment.
invisible illness
Elin-Hēni (Ngāti Porou), an artist and advocate, and I have initiated a visual collaboration centered around the theme of invisible illness in women.
selfhood
An archive of self—of presence, absence, and transformation. These jars, filled with material accumulated over time, reject surface as a marker of identity, embracing instead what is shed yet remains intimately mine. Rooted in Kristeva’s abjection and Artaud’s critique of representation, this work challenges conventional portraiture, framing the body through remnants rather than gaze—a direct confrontation with the politics of self-representation, containment, and exposure.