RETROSPECTIVE
2009–2025
This retrospective is a journey through fragments — of light, of lives, of places crossed and returned to.
Photography has been my way of listening to the world, and of understanding my place within it.
“As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world…
as in being able to remake ourselves.”
— Mahatma Gandhi
LUCE E MATERIA
Before journeys, before distance,
there are images that remain.
Forms learned early.
Light remembered.
Land as measure.
UPROOTED
It is only in searching that we discover what we were searching for.
EXILE AND ANCHOR
WITNESSING HISTORY
There are moments when looking is no longer enough.
When presence becomes a responsibility.
Witnessing history is not about recording events as they unfold,
but about remaining — attentive, respectful, accountable —
within what is taking place.
These images were made in proximity.
To hands shaping wood.
To bodies carrying memory.
To communities asserting continuity in the face of erasure,
and to lives marked by forces larger than themselves.
Here, photography is not a claim.
It is an act of listening.
Jim Hart (7idansuu), Haida master carver and Chief of the Eagle Clan, working alongside his son Gwaai Edenshaw (Gwaliga Hart) during the carving of the Reconciliation Totem Pole.
Kitty Grant
Carcross/Tagish First Nations
Wolf Clan
In June 2017, in Carcross, Yukon,
I met Kitty Grant —
a Residential School Survivor.
A woman of luminous strength
who transformed trauma into dignity.
From her, I learned that reconciliation
does not mean forgetting,
but facing the past
with respect and courage.
–They took away my language,
but they could not take away
my knowledge.–
S H E
A circle of women across time and geography —
where care, memory, and quiet strength become a shared language.
AWARENESS – THE PATH AND PURPOSE
DTES
In Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, I encountered lives shaped by systemic neglect —
a reality that demanded presence, not distance.
RESIDENTIAL SCHOOLS
Learning about the Residential School system in Canada reshaped my understanding of history, trauma, and responsibility
FORMS AND SILENCE
After witnessing–
form, space, absence and silence became necessary —
Balance Rock - Haida Gwaii