Body:Land

This collaborative and evolving body of work explores the implications of inserting the nude female body into natural and industrial landscapes through performative and site-responsive analog photographs. My partner and collaborator Lauren and I started this series during the summer of 2024 around Truckee, California. Collaboration and a body-centered approach are fundamental to this work. We aim to explore questions such as: How do the intertwined relationships between body, nature, and industry enable us to see ourselves in a new way? What happens when we reduce our reliance on technology and sustain ourselves solely to create? In what ways do the forms and movements of our bodies mirror the landscapes we are surrounded by? How can we subvert art historical representations of the nude female body by stripping away its sensuality?

By alternating our roles as photographer and subject, we subvert the power dynamics inherent in photography, a medium often wielded to dominate-particularly in historical and colonial contexts- where capturing images transformed subjects into objects. Each of our photographs is a response to the terrain, and the shifting dynamics of time and embodied experience in that place.

These images are scanned medium format film negatives and digitally edited files.