Here For You, 2025

I was commissioned by the Seattle Public Library to photograph six branches for their Here For You campaign designed to boost awareness and library card sign-ups.

My images highlighted each branch’s architecture, atmosphere, and unique history, later combined with illustrations to create collectible postcards in a collage format. I focused on reocurring colors, symbols, and patterns recognizable to patrons, creating visual cohesion across branches while reflecting each library’s distinct personality. 

Three of six locations. 

HIGHPOINT

DELRIDGE

MADRONA-SALLY GOLDMARK

Retrato: Conectandonos Más

Conectándonos Más ("Connecting Us More"), , is a 3-month youth program by Movimiento Afrolatino Seattle, designed to educate and inspire young people to reconnect with their ancestral roots and explore the cultural contributions of Afro-descendant communities in Latin America. My participation consisted of two part:

 1. I documented the youth participation photographically and produced a short documentary film highlighting the participants’ experiences and the overall impact of the program. 

2. Facilitated a two-hour parcipatory workshop session “Retrato: Mobil Photography” for the youth participants. This resulted in a final installation showcasing the student self portraits mixed with my photographs of the program and participants. 

PORTRAITS

PROGRAM DOCUMENTATION

INSTALLATION VIEW

Mental Health for Latinx Communities, 2019

This video project chronicles the experiences and perspectives of the Latinx community on mental health care in Washington state.

Drawing from my personal network, I invited community members to participate in on-camera interviews, where I asked them a series of questions about their relationships with mental health care. The result is a series of six videos (compiled in one here), each centering around a specific prompt reflecting the participants’ individual and collective experiences.  The interviewees represent a diverse mix of genders, generations, immigration statuses, and national backgrounds within the Latinx community in King/Snohomish county.

The project was sponsored by Rethinking Manhood in collaboration with Monroe Communities Coalition and the Washington State Health Care Authority, and was created for educational use, particularely by mental health providers. 

I collaborated with La Realeza Collective to design a t-shirt that reads “Es Mejor Encender La Luz Que Maldecir La Oscuridad” — translated as “It is better to turn on the light than to curse the darkness.”

I also directed and photographed the promotional imagery.