STATEMENT OF WORK

I am a visual artist based between Namibia and New York, working primarily with analogue photography that is based in sustainable and experimental processes. My current work engages with the photographic medium as a tactile, material process shaped by social and ecological histories. I work with historic, experimental processes like phytograms, anthotypes, and lumen prints, often using expired darkroom papers foraged from defunct darkrooms active during Namibia’s Apartheid era.

My current practice foregrounds environmental fragility and biodiversity and considers the material and political implications of representing nature through photographic images. I work in the studio and outside: in riverbeds, boglands and salt pans, and consider the legacies of resource extraction in the ongoing devastation of ocean and earth species. In 2020, I began a body of work in Namibia inspired by the Kalahari Desert, and continue to work across the diverse landscapes of the Namib desert and along Namibia's vast Atlantic coastline, where I forage plants and marine life for my printing processes.

During an Artist-in-Residency in 2024 on the Pacifc Ocean in Washington State, I continued my research and experimenting with seaweed, kelp, and other organic matter in combination with expired darkroom papers. While based at the American Academy in Rome in 2024 as a Visiting Artist, I researched botanical history and biodiversity in the Lazio region, and created a series of alternative photographic prints based on plant and marine biodiversity sourced from the landscapes around Rome. 

By rooting my photography in ecological awareness and collaboration with the natural world, I feel compelled to share my own lived experience, which is shaped by deep respect for nature and the desire for environmental justice.