The question: How does desire shape us — and who shapes desire?
Desire is never purely personal. It is manufactured, directed, amplified, and sold back to us before we know we want it. These bodies of work examine desire from the inside — as image-maker, as obsessive, as witness to other people's longing.
(2001-2009)
Advertising Photography
/fashion & editorial/
The brief was always desire. Sell the shoe, the car, the weekend. But desire is more interesting than the product it moves, and the camera knows it. These campaigns used the language of seduction to ask what seduction costs — who it serves, what it flattens, what it quietly reveals.
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(2014)
Fixation, Addiction, Obsession
/essay/
Written in a piazza in Venice, published in Creem, 2014. A first-person portrait of obsession from the inside — what it feels like to want something so completely that the wanting becomes its own identity.
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(2015 - now)
Tinder Photography
/portraiture/
Since 2015, hundreds of sessions with people wanting love. They enter my studio believing this is about a photo, but it's really about recognition -- allowing themselves to be and be seen, truly. The platform is cynical. The longing is not. And there is something quietly radical about that.
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