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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Eye Contact

    Eye Contact

    Exploring the balance of trust, power, and vulnerability in human eye interactions.

  • Intimate Intervention

    Intimate Intervention

    Gestures of touch transforming shared environments into sites of intimacy.

  • Earworm

    Earworm

    Exploring intimacy through ear-touching and whispering.

  • Psychic City

    Psychic City

    The eye as a conduit between perception and the city.