Paper Leaves and Concrete Trees
Bronx, New York 2025
This body of photographs was made at the Bronx Zoo. The work examines captivity as a social, historical, and ethical condition rather than a neutral site of education or conservation. The images focus on animal enclosures and manufactured environments, situating the zoo within longer histories of colonial extraction, public display, and human control over other bodies. The project considers how looking itself becomes a form of power, and how institutions built around care can reproduce systems of confinement, hierarchy, and profit.