Beside the Sun (2025-ongoing)

Beside the Sun (ongoing) engages in a material and speculative dialogue with unidentified photographers working for the Farm Security Administration between 1935 and 1944. By rehabilitating images discarded by Roy Stryker—the head of the FSA’s Information Division, who commissioned photographers to document the struggles of American farmers I assemble a landscape of the left-out and the marginalized. This queer and feminist gesture of retrieval sheds light on Stryker’s irreparable method of puncturing negatives that did not align with the Administration’s vision of American rural life. The hole punch, which appears as a black disc on the print, speaks to the extractive and arbitrary nature of documentary practice, a recurring theme in my care experiments with landscape photography and cinema.

Beside the Sun (ongoing) engages in a material and speculative dialogue with unidentified photographers working for the Farm Security Administration between 1935 and 1944. By rehabilitating images discarded by Roy Stryker—the head of the FSA’s Information Division, who commissioned photographers to document the struggles of American farmers I assemble a landscape of the left-out and the marginalized. This queer and feminist gesture of retrieval sheds light on Stryker’s irreparable method of puncturing negatives that did not align with the Administration’s vision of American rural life. The hole punch, which appears as a black disc on the print, speaks to the extractive and arbitrary nature of documentary practice, a recurring theme in my care experiments with landscape photography and cinema.