About The Thread

I am a documentary photographer (MA Royal College of Art; ARPS Royal Photographic Society) from the Dominican Republic. I also work as an economist (BA, MPA, MSc) on policy issues concerning human development and material and physical security. Some time ago, I turned to philosophy (PhD) to think on what fuels the underbelly of human intelligence and disposition.

My most important photographic subject is the person

The 1969 feminist slogan ‘the personal is political’ does not deny a distinction between our public and private lives. It does indicate there exist socio-political and economic divisions between public and private discourses through an established orthodoxy that presupposes everyone is entitled to choice, without restraint and unregulated by normative expectations.

In my practice, I bring to the fore these dynamics, celebrating the trials and joys of those that have come before us, and encouraging those with us to speak out, take up space and find meaning in these small but significant acts of resilience.

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The Thread Photography

My photographic practice is concerned with the relationship between time, memory and experience. In an image devoid of cars or technology, the protests continue to highlight the same issues over which our mothers and grandmothers took to the streets: the value of work and fair pay; bodily autonomy and personal safety.

The poverty and exclusion are phenomena entrenched in disadvantage despite the presumptive success of the feminist struggle for equality. We may see ourselves too far removed from politics and the world of decision-making, but everything is politicised. Think about it. Women and carers who are not engaged in the so-called economy are deemed statistically as 'economically inactive'. That's unbelievable, and in fact it fills me with a quiet rage. It's likely to be the same rage that drove feminists from the suffragette movements until today to highlight just how absurd it is the world is fabricated in a certain way that excludes any fundamental aspect of being human, that could be identity, a right to opportunity and expression, of civic engagement and recognition.

The Beauty of Photography

Images possess a unique way of making the world sensible. What we see – and feel through what we see – has a way of making things innate without our being aware of them. Our consciousness of them is bound by the nature of the thingness of the image - a textural, spatial and affective quality – that reveals our presence in the world is substantial though we may just be hints of flesh.

Each person has a fundamental project of being, a project I relate to a journey bound up with the joys and trials of others.

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