Visual Studies / 005

Body & Gesture

New York City

2023–2024

Walking Wounded

Frailty, resilience, and the complex emotions triggered by witnessing trauma in public spaces.

Walking Wounded follows bandages, braces and marked bodies moving through ordinary streets. Injury becomes publicly readable, even when the person carrying it has not chosen the meanings others attach to it.

The series keeps the act of looking inside the work. Some subjects return the gaze and unsettle the photographer’s authority; others remain unaware, intensifying the imbalance between being visible and controlling how one is seen.

The photographs withhold spectacle and resist easy stories of tragedy or triumph. They hold vulnerability and persistence together while asking what responsibility belongs to the photographer and viewer when another person’s pain enters the frame.

  • Oral Intervention

    Oral Intervention

    Fleeting, intimate gestures of touching mouths in public spaces.

  • Hair

    Hair

    Hair explored as a site where personal identity intersects with public space.

  • The Subject at Hand

    The Subject at Hand

    A photographic study of hands that emerge from the background of street scenes and become the subject through repetition, attention and sequencing.

  • Nailshop

    Nailshop

    Fingernails as bodily edges where grooming, self-fashioning and social judgment meet.

  • Oral Fixation

    Oral Fixation

    A photographic study of people of all ages touching their mouths, tracing a small, often unconscious gesture repeated across public life.

  • Tokyo After Dark
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    Tokyo After Dark

    Tokyo night photography exploring intimacy, labor, performance and anonymity across the city’s after-dark districts.