“We’ve Become Like Strangers” is a long-term photography project that excavates our fractured – occasionally desolate – post-pandemic world.
Thematically, this collection began as an attempt to address the broader political divisions that exist both globally and domestically. However, these photographs have since transcended their initial, intellectual aim in favor of a more emotional one: my explorative desire for catharsis.
When examining the body of work I’ve created thus far, there’s a clear throughline directed toward the seemingly forgotten spaces that have remained untouched by modernity. Indeed, my portraits of the strangers I’ve met in these locations are similarly untouched, yet anchored by a yearning for commonality and community.
Perhaps fittingly, this tension between isolation and connection has awakened an elusive, creative freedom. The childlike act of wandering in search of powerful images, untethered to the noise and weight of everyday anxiety, has become both healing and generative.
The result is a transportive, even blissful, sense of curiosity that permeates the work as well as the act of making it. This ongoing observational prac
