Undercover

Healthy Eaters

Healthy Eaters

Medium: Archival pigment print
Date: 2020
Size: 12x12"
Edition: 10 + 2 A/P

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Lorraine and Ron

Lorraine and Ron

Medium: Archival pigment print
Date: 2020
Size: 12x12"
Edition: 10 + 2 A/P

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Cat is Dog

Cat is Dog

Medium: Archival pigment print
Date: 2020
Size: 12x12"
Edition: 10 + 2 A/P

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Finn

Finn

Medium: Archival pigment print
Date: 2020
Size: 12x12"
Edition: 10 + 2 A/P

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Colleen and Pip

Colleen and Pip

Medium: Archival pigment print
Date: 2020
Size: 12x12"
Edition: 10 + 2 A/P

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The Boys

The Boys

Medium: Archival pigment print
Date: 2020
Size: 12x12"
Edition: 10 + 2 A/P

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Alien Cat

Alien Cat

Medium: Archival pigment print
Date: 2020
Size: 12x12"
Edition: 10 + 2 A/P

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Sophie and Hans

Sophie and Hans

Medium: Archival pigment print
Date: 2020
Size: 12x12"
Edition: 10 + 2 A/P

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Sophie Cat

Sophie Cat

Medium: Archival pigment print
Date: 2020
Size: 12x12"
Edition: 10 + 2 A/P

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Brandy, Ed and Buster

Brandy, Ed and Buster

Medium: Archival pigment print
Date: 2020
Size: 12x12"
Edition: 10 + 2 A/P

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The Redhead

The Redhead

Medium: Archival pigment print
Date: 2020
Size: 12x12"
Edition: 10 + 2 A/P

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Mohanned and Amanda

Mohanned and Amanda

Medium: Archival pigment print
Date: 2020
Size: 12x12"
Edition: 10 + 2 A/P

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Drake Leaning

Drake Leaning

Medium: Archival pigment print
Date: 2020
Size: 12x12"
Edition: 10 + 2 A/P

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Amy In Stripes

Amy In Stripes

Medium: Archival pigment print
Date: 2020
Size: 12x12"
Edition: 10 + 2 A/P

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The Dancers

The Dancers

Medium: Archival pigment print
Date: 2020
Size: 12x12"
Edition: 10 + 2 A/P

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Uniglo Girl

Uniglo Girl

Medium: Archival pigment print
Date: 2020
Size: 12x12"
Edition: 10 + 2 A/P

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PacVal

PacVal

Medium: Archival pigment print
Date: 2020
Size: 12x12"
Edition: 10 + 2 A/P

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Red Shoes

Red Shoes

Medium: Archival pigment print
Date: 2020
Size: 12x12"
Edition: 10 + 2 A/P

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Alien in a Pantsuit

Alien in a Pantsuit

Medium: Archival pigment print
Date: 2020
Size: 12x12"
Edition: 10 + 2 A/P

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Chanel

Chanel

Medium: Archival pigment print
Date: 2020
Size: 12x12"
Edition: 10 + 2 A/P

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BIOGRAPHY

In the dark days of strict self-quarantining, I felt a profound loss to my photographic portrait practice, in addition, a general malaise and sense of isolation. With the mandate to wear masks, I considered not only the loss of identity with faces obscured by swaths of fabric, but the loss of connectivity with friends and family.

I reached out to friends and family and presented my idea for a new series titled Undercover. They would create their own paper bag masks and arrive at my backyard studio for a portrait session at a determined time. After donning their masks, they would step onto the backdrop and wait. I would then appear in my own mask, shout instructions which often resulted in great hilarity, shoot quickly and return to the house. And because I shoot film, I had no idea as to the results for a number of weeks.

What I wasn’t expecting was that while wearing their masks, participants lost a particular self-consciousness that comes from performing for the camera, instead feeling a levity and elevated spirit from participating in an artful and fun activity. The end result revealed new sides to people I know well and documented how art can shift moods even in the darkest of days.