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       The year 2020 probably wasn’t what you had hoped for. The COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically affected how we live our lives and for many of us life feels like it’s been put on hold. Millions of lives have been lost and so many events cancelled. It truly has been a traumatic year for the world.

       I have created a series of photographs inspired by the COVID-19 pandemic called Quarantine. Quarantine expresses the hardships we all go through during quarantine, conveys feelings of isolation, and gives a glimpse of hope for the future. It’s officially the one year anniversary of this pandemic and so much has changed. My main focus for this project is to demonstrate the relationship between human life and quarantine. Documenting these times has been very hard because it brings up sad memories but also a great way to cope with life and find a bright side to every situation. We are all survivors and have our own unique story to tell. There is hope and the vaccine is a light at the end of the tunnel. I can’t wait for life to slowly go back. I hope that you can connect with these images and reflect on your quarantine year.

       Obsessed is a photographic series that portrays the harsh realities of social media and evolving vanity in our culture. Social Media applications such as Instagram, Facebook, and Snapchat highlight the best junctures of an individual's life creating false realities. Society as a whole is constantly scrolling through social media consuming images that shape our concept of beauty and even self worth. Many people find so much self gratification in posting that it consumes their lives. Rather than enjoying an incredible moment, it’s spent taking photographs for social media or scrolling through these applications. Social media has become inseparably linked with body image influencing how people see themselves both positively and negatively. Most people alter their images with filters and facetune in order to match beauty standards. Editing appearances disconnects people from reality and creates a new online version of themselves that negatively affects the way that people receive themselves and their bodies. No one is capable of living up to an unrealistic image of what people think that they should look like. Our society is obsessed with their social media image and how the world perceives them online.  

       Open Your Eyes is a photographic series that demonstrates the world through my eyes. It’s so important to look out the window and look up at the sky. You might be surprised by what you see.

       Fashion plays such a crucial role in the evolution of culture and society. Interestingly, there are two viewpoints that are both extremely widespread but almost opposite: conformists think that what is popular is fashionable, while rebels believe that being different is the essence. People can truly express individualism and identity through their fashion. Brand names are a phenomenon that can control people’s images within society and social class. My work is an examination of the preconceived notions of people based on what they are wearing and the individualism expressed through fashion.
       Fashion helps to define our culture and the idolization of certain things, like the Gucci belt, Kendra Scott, Hunter boots. People find comfort and conformation in wearing items that represent status and social class. An item could be worn in billions of different ways and still represent a similar notion. The best part of fashion is that their is individualism and different meanings in every outfit. People truly have the opportunity to express themselves and the image they want to present to the world around them. I used photoshop to digitally double expose all of my photographs. I constructed collages that express things that the individual in the photograph believe represent them. These collages were juxtaposed over elements of their outfit to truly express their identity and fashion individualism. Fashion magazines and my friends inspired and influenced this project. I wanted to add significant meanings to fashion objects and show how they express individualism.

Addiction is a photographic series on the social commentary of addiction. Addiction comes in many different shapes, forms, and sizes. My main purpose is to portray the addiction of vaping, partying, and cell phones. I want to further highlight the addictive qualities of these things as I continue my photographic practice.