Photographic CV

Passionate photographic storyteller available for events, fine art commissions, and private photoshoots. Self-taught in wildlife and street photography, which lends me a unique eye toward spectacularly candid moments and emotional metaphor.

Exhibits and Commissions

Uptown Photowalk Gallery

December 13th – January 30th, 2023; Buunni Coffee Inwood; New York City

Contributor of 2 images to a community show of photography by members of the group Uptown Photowalk focused on Washington Heights, Inwood, and farther afield.

#TheGramUptown Virtual/Visceral

November 3 – February 11th, 2023; Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance Gallery @4140 Broadway, United Palace Theater First Floor Annex; New York City

Contributor of 8 images to a community show of photography highlighting the 'beauty, history, and vibrancy of Uptown Manhattan'.

New York: Then and Now

October 25th – November 18th, 2022; Dwight-Englewood School; Englewood, New Jersey

Joint exhibit showing 10 of my photographs from 2018–2022 with John McCabe's photographs from 1970s–1990s of New York City.

In Dialogue: Life at the Harvard Club of New York, 1940 and 2022

September 2022–present; Harvard Club of New York; New York City

Commissioned color photographs of club life in 2022, presented in juxtaposition with a collection of B&W Alfred Eisenstaedt prints of club life in 1940.

Teaching Experience

My experience teaching science (biology, chemistry, environmental science) at Dwight-Englewood School for 6 years informs my instruction of educational design of photographic principles. Additionally, I mentor other photographers in local Telegram chats and in-person photography walks.

Photography Teacher — Dwight-Englewood 360 Summer Connections; Young Visionaries: Digital Media Immersives Program

Taught first-principles photography using iPad technology to middle school students over a 2-week short course: perspective, compositional techniques, digital editing.
Culminated in students presenting their three most emotionally impactful photographs in a camp group art exhibition.

Assorted Photographic Educational Workshops — Dwight-Englewood School

Delivered hour lecture: Photography as Respite on using photography to process emotions; Dwight-Englewood Connections Series on Wellness; February 24th, 2021.
Led an hour workshop for secondary seniors on the basics of nature photography in 2019 and 2020, and a dual workshop on street + wildlife photography, 2022.

Photographic Clubs

Participant: Fashion Photowalks (Cape Town), Night Crawlers (Cape Town), Uptown Photowalk (NYC), Queens Street Photo Collective (NYC), Pursuit of Portraits (NYC).

Education

My academic training was largely centered in geological science: how can we use Earth's climate history as context to inform our understanding of human-induced climate change?

Brown University; Providence, RI (USA)

ScM., Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences (May 2016)

Lafayette College; Easton, PA (USA)

Double A.B., Geology & Environmental Geosciences and International Affairs, Summa Cum Laude (3.95), Honors Thesis (May 2013)

Honors

Rebecca Blackwell Award (for promise in a young educator, D-E School), May 2019
National Geographic Research Grant (first author under advisor's name), April 2017
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, April 2014
Brown University Presidential Fellowship, April 2014
U.S. Fulbright Student Research Award — South Africa, April 2013