Just Last Week

Artist’s Statement

For this documentary project I’ve interviewed women on the topic of male expectations of female behavior. Almost every time I asked about something recent or significant that has happened the response was “oh yeah, just last week…” and I realized how much of a constant it is in our day to day lives.

When I conceptualized this project I initially wanted to photograph women in their environments capturing multiple dimensions of them, to show that we’re not one-dimensional. However, once I began shooting I quickly realized that this was actually counterproductive of my goal. While we're certainly not one-dimensional, we’re definitely not just two... or three. We're everything. All the dimensions.

Each shoot that I showed up to the women were ready. They were strong and excited and shy and confident and funny. They were so many things in such a short amount of time. This is us, women. We are lovely inside. And we adapt and change to our environments. And these portraits are us in our elements: at home, in the studio, at school, at work, where we unwind; they’re where we are developing ourselves and learning to be the best versions of ourselves.

• Full body of work, including an article I’ve written, available June 8, 2019 in the summer (and first!) issue of Dream Broad Magazine.