Locals

Born and raised in Charlotte, North Carolina, I began to document all that I could of the city center that raised me. I began my longest project, “Locals,” as it continues to this day, as I became ever aware of place, the facet of experience in which my work revolves. I believe everything is political, no matter the label or how you spin it, and to see the rate at which people were becoming others, humans and experiences relegated to nothing more than a statistic, was nothing short of alarming. This body of work is dedicated to the diaspora of those tied down and the implements of power that keep them urbanized.