How we work
Education
Visiting artist sessions, teacher workshops, and curriculum design for schools and university programs — drawing on over fifteen years of teaching from K–12 to post-graduate.
Curation
Exhibition curation and installation — concept, sequence, wall labels, and bringing a body of work onto the wall as a coherent whole.
Consulting
Visual strategy and archive consulting for non-profits, cultural organizations, and individual artists — figuring out what a project wants to be before it gets made.
Preservation
From negative to wall. Commissioned production (documentation, archives, editorial) paired with print, frame, and installation — so a project that begins in the camera ends on the wall, in the archive, or in the publication intact.
Recent service & volunteer photography
Poetease · Les Éco Médiateurs
Photography and production support for the Poetease performance series produced by Association Les Éco Médiateurs.
Homeward Alliance
Volunteer photography for the Larimer County non-profit serving people experiencing homelessness — documenting programs, events, and the people who keep them running.
Hope Farms
Photography in collaboration with the Department of Corrections — supporting a transitional program where participants gain skills working the land.
If you're a non-profit or cultural association looking for photography support, get in touch.
Past collaborations
They Are Us
A portrait and oral-history project produced in cooperation with Boulder County Homeless Services. With full consent, women facing housing insecurity volunteered to share their time and narratives with students at Front Range Community College. Students from the women's studies and sexuality courses joined with digital photo to create oral histories and imagery that sought to share and portray these experiences in a delicate and compelling way.
This documentary approach allowed my students to table preconceptions and at times be surprised by the interviews and lifestyles of the women they worked with — helping them realize that what we are told and see is definitely not the whole story.
Humanity Through the Lens
Inspired by Wendy Ewald's collaborative photography practice and made in response to a broken community after a string of very public student suicides, Humanity Through the Lens began as my advanced photography students' attempt to process loss in ways that might help others grapple with it. At the same time, the humanities department was studying Bhutan and the country's framework of Gross National Happiness — what did a place that prioritized wellbeing over materialism actually look like?
We planned a trip. In preparation, students developed a working model — Hopes/Fears, Smiles/Tears — a set of prompts, refined by peer mentors, that let young people inquire into difficult questions about what they feared and what they saw for their futures. We brought it to elementary students in Palo Alto and middle school students in Bhutan, and my advanced photography students collaborated with their peers to translate the writing into lenticular presentations. The strongest pieces were enlarged and installed for that year's TEDxGunnHighSchool.
I've recently reached out to former students to reflect on the project years on. I'd like to come back to it.
Inside/Out — A TEDx + JR Collaboration
Students made portraits of a diverse group of peers, then tackled a large-scale wheat-paste installation that covered the back wall of the school theater and served as the entrance to that year's TEDxGunnHighSchool program.
Footage of the installation was included in the documentary Inside Out: The People's Art Project, JR's TED-prize project film, presented at the Tribeca Film Festival, 2013.
Not In Our Schools
An anti-bullying initiative running over several years — a week-long program each cycle in which the art department created large-scale, site-wide installations addressing all forms of bullying, not a single identity. Students contributed visual work that took over hallways, courtyards, and shared spaces for the duration.
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Exploring the Spectrum
A small portrait project and accompanying essay made in collaboration with NoCo SafeSpace LGBTQIA+. Trans and gender-exploring youth participated voluntarily, with parental consent, sharing their stories on identity, sexuality, and how schools support — or fail to support — gender exploration.
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If your organization, school, or association is thinking about a collaboration — workshop, exhibition, archive, documentation — send a brief and we'll talk.
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