“Land here!” “You need to turn. Turn now! Cut the Engines!” “Doctor! She’s pregnant!” Spotlights beaming in the dark against the Aegean Sea. Voices vibrating through megaphones. Waves crashing against the rocky shore. The crying echoes of men, women and children. Volunteers racing forward. Possessions ripped out of plastic wrapping. Phone calls telling loved ones they’ve made it. These are not scenes from a film, but each one a recurring sound of the Greek Island of Lesvos.
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Refugees pass through a Croatian winter refugee camp.
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Children and their families mainly traveling from Syria and Afghanistan journey across the world to Western Europe seeking a new life.
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After interviewed over 5o museum guards about their day I composed a book and the images inside. Each image is just a piece of the guards as to not expose any information of who they are visually.
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A 1 ton sculpture detecting oil spills globally using a spider crawling algorithm. Once detected the sculpture turns on letting spectators know, pinging the location of the spill. When not in use the sculpture acts as a place of dialogue for environmental issues by hosting panels for and by the public.
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Grabbing a couple friends on my 20th birthday we set out to make a film in a week. Building a POV helmet with a Mark lll attached we did just that.
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A 2,000 lb sculpture made of concrete
and epoxy exposing the atrocity of war on the human body. The sculpture created in the form of a table opens up the ability to have dialogue without turning away from the subject at hand as it is physically in front of you, lessening the abstractions of violence.
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Life of Kurdish refugees living in Izmir.
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While these belongings, at first glance, may look to the viewer like junk, each object contains the memories of people who've fled their homes in search of new lives.
With this series of images, I hope to invite the viewer to re-consider your connection to your own possessions. What would you take if you had to leave your home forever? What could you live without?
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A Chicago community fights back against injustice within America's police force.
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A small book series animated with GIFS to add a bit of movement to the pages for a cryptocurrency platform.
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Casual digital paintings to keep myself active creatively.
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A website built to document the protests of George Floyd's horrendous death. Housing Twitter videos and photos as an archive to the BLM movement.
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Helping restaurants expand upon their current branding in a playful way.
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Syrian children just try and make it through the
day after arriving in Turkey.
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A mother believing her child had passed and the seconds that followed.
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A mother and her three children try to exist on the streets of Istanbul. Her eldest paralyzed form the waist down as shrapnel from a Syrian military barrel bomb lay deep inside his body.
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