I am a Senior at Marblehead High School. I began taking pictures of my family on a simple point and shoot digital camera as a child. In the summer of 2013, I went to a summer camp where I spent time in a darkroom doing traditional darkroom photography. A few summers later I was sent to camp with a film camera of my own. I learned the mechanics of photography while growing down in Vermont. By the end of my camper summers, I was teaching introduction to film photography and working in the darkroom by myself. When I entered high school, I signed up to take photography, and since my Freshman year I have been learning how to take photographs and not "snapshots". I was initially drawn to photography because I wanted to document emotions and remember everything that had happened and everywhere I had been. Gradually, I have shifted to taking images of people and places with the intent to communicate emotions. I enjoy taking images of architecture and urban landscapes. I feel as though the building and environment we interact with every day are overlooked as we rush from place to place.

 

In addition to photography, I also play the violin, stage manage the shows at my school and work on various design teams, sing in an acapella group, and swim on my high school swim team.