Time is traceable in photographs, even when it’s not labeled. It isn’t just a technical process, it’s an art — requiring attunement to both the material and immaterial. You just have to pull back the layers to begin to see it.

During the summer of 2024, I captured my grandfather’s home and what would be his 90th & final birthday – just weeks before his passing. The feeling of things shifting compelled me to document this period of passage, here’s how I chose to hold those moments.

The late great collector Arturo Schomburg’s library was known to have “manifested the idea of Black history as inheritance – material upon which we can base our future.” What began as a process of mourning and grieving for me turned into one of discovery.