The Sunroom Series

This project didn’t start with the intention of being shared publicly. I moved into my current apartment alone in March of 2023, and the sunroom quickly became one of my favorite places.

This series became a conduit for spending time with others, sometimes as short as 20 minutes and other times an entire day. Sharing my home with people ranging from childhood friends and family to strangers I was meeting for the first time as they sat in the rocking chair was a way to meaningfully connect with others and with myself.

The process is done entirely by hand and entirely within my home: I make the portraits in the sunroom, develop the negatives in the kitchen, hand-coat the paper in my dining room, and print the cyanotypes in my living room where they typically hang. And in this way, the images reflect the experience of creating them: fleeting and imperfect, but sincere.

The room, the chair, and the camera have remained the three constants in these images, allowing the people that chose to share my space with me to be the focus.