My approach to photography is largely inspired by movies. I came to New York about a year ago with the idea of getting into fashion photography, and what attracted me to fashion was the possibility of creating photographic narratives. However, I’ve just used that as a jumping off point and I’m working now in this mixed bag that draws from cinema, fashion, and street. As I’ve gotten older I find I’m drawn to things that made an impression when I was a kid, things like my father’s Ektachrome slide shows, super 8 movies, black and white movies on late night TV.
The attached series, “On the lam,” is from a larger set of series on the lives of young women, imagined and real. Influenced by cinematic styles from different decades – film noir, Super 8 home movies, cinéma vérité – they each explore a woman finding, creating, and asserting her place in the world. There are so many young women in New York City who are here from elsewhere, and I see this tension of place with childhood merging into adulthood, where the space you inhabit is never really yours. Which I think is true for everyone, everywhere – it’s just more apparent here.
