July 2025, the Seine reopened for recreational swimming for the first time since 1923. Once a lively swimming site, the environmental effects of the Industrial Revolution (factory runoff, sewage leaks, boat traffic, car fumes…) made the river water unsafe for bathing. The official reopening follows the 2024 Olympic Games, in which more than $1.6 billion was invested in river cleanup. The City of Paris opened pools for lap swimming at Bercy, Bras de Grenelle, and Bras Marie. I took this photograph from the Bercy Bridge, on a walk with my French-American friend, Anis.
What’s Going On!, Extra Special with Cheese, Burlington, VT, November 22-December 21, 2025
Of Land and Place, Vermont Center for Photography, Brattleboro, VT, March 7-April 27, 2025.
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Girl, What’s the Word? A Guided Friendship Journal, cover photograph, 2025.
Riverside, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Cambridge, MA, May 2023.
Wild Girls: How the Outdoors Shaped the Women Who Challenged a Nation, Tiya Miles, WW Norton, 2023.
B-22, Carpenter Center for Visual Arts, Cambridge MA, May 2022
B22 is a studio space in the basement of the Harvard Carpenter Center where I created an installation with family photographs, found objects, paintings, drawings, and organic materials. I was interested in fostering new relationships between the materials I gathered and exploring how these connections allowed the past to be recontextualized and re-imagined through photography in the present.
Kitchen, Midwest Center for Photography, May 6-27, 2022.
The Harvard Advocate, Spring 2021.
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