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(Fordham) Road began as an attempt to capture the specific transplant culture that grew within a privileged campus in the Bronx, but it ultimately exposed a longing I had never allowed myself to confront. As a dark-skin first-generation kid who grew up without ease or social safety, I entered a college environment where many students moved through the world with a comfort I had never known. I photographed them because their ordinary freedom was something I had never been allowed to feel. The work became a personal study of how belonging is performed and how ease is embodied by those who never had to question whether they deserve it.

In photographing their ease, I was grieving the youth I spent prevailing instead of belonging.

Pentax Zoom 90 WR, Canon Autoboy, Nikon F100, iPhone 4, iPhone 15.
Kodak 400 Ultramax.
Printed on Luster paper.