Telling Stories Without Words

I'm an aspiring professional photographer currently in Dayton, Ohio pursuing my BFA in photography at the University of Dayton (UD) with an anticipated graduation of May 2026. I have a passion for human rights, mental health advocacy, and uplifting voices of those otherwise unheard.
After learning how to navigate a darkroom as well as operating a professional DSLR camera, I have had a passion for telling stories through photography. In my work, this fuses with my passion for telling the stories of my life as well as other's lives and my artistic vision.
I have loved photography and storytelling since I was a child, from picking up dance and learning performance art to the toy camera from VTech and the grainy images taken by a Nintendo DS to a dinky point and shoot gifted to me on my 13th birthday to shooting and editing images on my phone throughout high school. I began writing in middle school, starting as just a hobby and writing fictional situations about my friends and I, some of which were collaborative. I picked up and dropped writing throughout high school in favor of storytelling with photography and videography due to writer's block and theatre preventing me from continuing. During high school, I only had one goal: tell a story without words. I still write from time to time, mainly now for University of Dayton's Human Rights Center.
I later went on to learn Adobe Photoshop & Lightroom as well as how to operate an analog and DSLR camera during my freshman year of college. I choose to tell a story with my work – life as a visibl… Read More