TOGETHER WE FIND APATHY

Together We Find Apathy is a series of digital collages examining the role of imagery in shaping how we witness, appropriate and ultimately become desensitized to social and political events. Created using images sourced through open image banks and searches for terms and hashtags including “war,” “naked,” #blacklivesmatter and #yesallwomen, the works bring together photographs spanning generations—from protest and mass incarceration to famine and conflict.

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Created in 2015, as social media was beginning to fundamentally reshape how we engage with the world, the series considers the distance between witnessing and acting. Images are selected, shared and discarded through screens, allowing us to participate in causes while remaining physically removed from them. What began as a response to changing digital platforms has evolved into a broader reflection on collective memory, historical repetition and the ease with which constant exposure can turn urgency into apathy.