Urbanized

Born and raised in Charlotte, North Carolina, I began documenting all I could of the city center that raised me. I started my longest project, “Urbanized,” as I became ever aware of place in its relation to socio-economics and class systems. For generations, metropolitan epicenters have been gateways to opportunity, and as the margins between those deemed successful or not widen, so does the process of “othering.”

I use this term to describe, generally, how we can obscure the degrees of separation between one another; often unaware of how little, or how much, it takes to transverse that line.

The Urban-Working Man has long been a defined line: this body of work is dedicated to those tied down, in their success and struggle, while critiquing the impliments of power which keep them urbanized.