“Becoming”
Over the years, I have found photography to be an excellent platform to connect with a wide variety of people.Exploring diversity amongst different communities of people has been the focus of my work. Becoming is a portrait series of the tattooed, pierced and modified community. Although our societal views on people who choose to get body modifications are changing, there are still stereotypes and preconceptions that I hope to create a dialogue about. I consider this series to be a collaboration of sorts between my sitters and I, in which they can be part of rewriting the connotation society has with the modified community. Becoming celebrates the expression of the self through ink and flesh, modified culture within America and the endless possibilities of transformation.