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Over the past decade, I have photographed conflict, catastrophic weather events, and mass migration across the Middle East, Europe, and Africa - work that instilled an urgency to anchor art in lived realities. Combining long-term ethnographic research with experimental forms of storytelling, I have worked on the frontlines against the Islamic State, in Global South communities fractured by violence and ecological collapse, and embedded with first responders battling Europe’s largest wildfires.

From the start of my career, I have aimed to make my practice expansive enough to hold contradiction and rigorous enough to reshape how complex events are represented. Trained first as a painter, I maintain a multimodal approach that merges documentary images, experimental optics, large-scale installation, and sculptural painting to expand how crises can be seen and understood. I seek to make visible the slow violences of our time and provoke deeper questioning of the stories that shape our world.

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