Inspired by tableau vivant and discouraged by the opportunism of photography, these staged images were made as a response to my artistic concerns and as a path on which all the experiences of my life converged into an artmaking practice. Taken over a period of five years, the photographs use friends and family to create my own cosmology from allegories, ritual and remnants of folklore. All the images were made with analog cameras, some medium format, and printed by hand in the color darkroom.

2005-2009