LUNCH POEMS (2019-2022)
The photographs in Lunch Poems highlight “third spaces”: communal settings outside of home and work such as taverns, church picnics, diners, restaurants, and movie theaters — sites where we might gather, if we could agree. Actively using photography to explore the residue of time and human effort, I create portraits of place, mindful of the individuals who have been there before and may be there again. Imaginary one-to-one conversations with these ghosts, so to speak, allow me to invest in the possibility that within this divided nation, we might, one day, understand and respect each other. Harnessing light to grasp at moments of joy in complicated environments, with these images I hope to forge an opening for deep looking and the exploration of multiple layers of meaning, an encounter with complex histories rather than one-dimensional, familiar tropes.
“Lunch Poems” (now sold out) debuted as a book in October 2022. Esquire named it a “Favorite Photo Book of Fall 2022.”
Select Press for “Lunch Poems”
09/2022: The Guardian, The Observer New Review, The melancholy of an empty American diner – in pictures
09/2022: Lomography Magazine, Documenting American Artifacts
09/2022: The Washington Post, Photographing America’s diners: When nostalgia becomes political
10/2022: Esquire, Lunch Poems a Favorite Photo Book of Fall ‘22
10/2022: Buzzfeed, A Canadian Photographer Found A New Creative Angle On The Iconic American Diner
11/2022: “Lunch Poems” makes The Luupe’s annual "best photobooks by women + non-binary photographers"
11/2022: Lehigh Valley Live, Easton photographer’s book probes American division through small-town diners