Small Magics consists of photographs made on my cellphone between 2010 and 2018. This practice began by using my phone as a sketchbook, photographing anything and everything that appealed to me formally during my photographic education. At this time, a professor told me and a group of my fellow students, "ninety percent of you won't still be making photographs in ten years.' Being a lifelong contrarian, I committed at that moment to remaining a photographer.
Upon graduation, I moved to New York City, where I slept on a mattress on the floor in a shared windowless room and made my best effort at being a person. Lacking the resources to continue large format photography, and in constant transit throughout the five boroughs, my cellphone became the most accessible way to continue my photographic practice.
In searching through some 50,000 photographs in this constantly expanding archive, a collection of formally and thematically connected photographs emerged, arranging themselves into pairs and triads. The result is a rhythmic arrangement of moments from nearly a decade, chronicling my quarter-life.
