This collection of photographs began as a reference to comparing, contrasting, and noticing things about my identity and my unfolding aging. The self-portrait is a composition of structured forces and aspects of our developed knowledge of life. It is a guide toward "Who am I?" After years of taking my pictures, I found that my identity is neither uniform nor fixed. I am involved in challenges and shifts and influence of the marked important issues of this decade. For me the click of the shutter is a kind of reassurance, a behavioral modification signal triggering “more living is on its way.”
My photography is focused on healing, community, sexual issues and self-portraiture. Projects have led to four books and my photographs have been collected by the Norton Museum; University of Texas, Austin and a self-portrait show in special collections, 2022 at Bryn Mawr College. As an art documentary photographer I have had the chance to bring images from gallery walls to media that, for example, helped change Finland's government to stop stamping passports with the HIV stigma. In my photographs of women and myself I am devoted to raising awareness through creative experiments.
Awards Lucie IPA TB-AIDS Diary and Self-Portraiture
Pictures of the Year 1st Place
Douglass College Women of Achievement
Friends of Photography Ferguson Award
Living in the Chelsea Hotel, Schiffer IPA Book Prize
Healing Waters Aperture
Erotic Lives of Women Scalo
Spa Journeys powerHouse Books
