Project Description
#MeToo
Laptopograms // Silver Gelatin Prints
The #MeToo movement went viral in 2017 and prompted me to visually reexamine and reprocess my own history of sexual assault and harassment. From 1996 to 1998, from the age of 13 to 15, I was raped and manipulated by my stepfather, a man I had grown to love and trust like my own father. This series revisits family photographs and documents, and uses the addition and subtraction of various elements to shed light on and express what for so long I could not.
The laptopogram process allows me to work both digitally and physically which creates a layer of separation between myself and the images. Family photos are scanned, manipulated, and then turned into silver gelatin prints by using a laptop to expose the images to the paper. This dual process allows me to both mentally and physically exorcize the demons from my past into the images in this series and serves as a sort of ritual for release.
