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This is taking over to share Misfits & Majesty, my contribution to a Pattern project, Small Talk. If you are an editor or art buyer, drop us a DM and we will send you the Small Talk box.

I didn't know how to originally approach this project. I began by building a relationship and trust with the group. At the time, I was transitioning from a newspaper photographer job, so it felt natural to show the evolution of one of the boys through the entirety of the program. Unfortunately, the boy flunked out halfway through. Then I pivoted to a video story, which felt daunting and messy. It became and continues to be an ongoing personal project that never feels finished.

Martha by Sian Davey is an intimate visual diary of adolescence, vulnerability, and transformation. I was particularly drawn to the book because of the photographer's previous work life as a psychotherapist. Sian acknowledges photography's potential to reveal deep aspects of the self, and a desire to excavate what is buried deep in family life, "the shadows" she calls it.

This is taking over to share Misfits & Majesty, my contribution to a Pattern project, Small Talk.

This is sharing my contribution to the ‘Small Talk’ project.
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‘Rewilding, Remembering’ explores a love of the land through food sovereignty. Exploring such topics as those working in harmony with nature, regenerative farming, heritage grains, wild foraging, and more - paired with poetry - the importance of living close to the land, and a deep love for it, runs through its narrative.
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If you are an editor or art buyer, drop us a DM and we will send you the Small Talk box.
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For the past year, folks in the Pattern community have been collaborating on a box set of projects called ‘Small Talk’. Unable to meet in person during the pandemic, we had no one with whom to discuss our lives, our obsessions and our discoveries. So instead we made “small talk” through the creation of zines and booklets, a tangible yet physically distanced way to say something to each other.

This is taking over to share We Trust Our Wings, my contribution to a Pattern project, Small Talk.

This board book features photographs taken in Denver over the past few years along with a poem about the beauty and power of community by Colorado Poet Laureate .

For the past year, Pattern has been collaborating on a box set of projects called Small Talk. Unable to meet in person during the pandemic, we had no one with whom to discuss our lives, our obsessions and our discoveries. So instead we made “small talk” through the creation of zines and booklets, a tangible yet physically distanced way to say something to each other.