I’m a Brooklyn-based photographer, director, and shooter with experience in social, short-form, and long-form news and culture documentary filmmaking. Everything I work on focuses on telling humanizing stories about resourcefulness within marginalized communities, counter-cultural movements, and the people pushed to the fringes of society. My work is heavily informed by my experience as a trans latinx person moving through the world.
I earned a Bachelor’s of Architecture with a minor in Sustainability from Pratt Institute in 2016. After becoming disillusioned with the impact that gentrification and fast architecture have on New York City, I applied what I learned in school to visual documentation and joined VICE in 2017. I’ve since co-led Vice’s LGBTQ+ ERG group, helped negotiate VICE’s first editorial union contract, and won several awards for my work. With an eye for timely and urgent stories, I helped create, pitch, develop, produce, and host the VICE News series Transnational—about trans rights around the world—which has since won a GLAAD and Peabody award. In 2021, I executed the second iteration of Gender Spectrum Collection—a stock photography project that aims to fill the lack of trans and non-binary representation in every day images. In 2022, the project was awarded a Bronze Cube for the Art Directors Club Photography: Design for Good Award. It also won first place for Photography: Citizen Design at the Print Awards.
In 2023, I hosted and helped develop and hosted a SHOWTIME segment about the ways that detransitioners are being used by conservative lawmakers to further their anti-LGBTQ+ agendas. I also completed a second season of Transnational. And I co-created, directed, and produced OUT LOUD—a 44-minute documentary about queer musicians and the spaces that shaped them, hosted by the one and only Big Freedia.
Over the last 6 years, I’ve touched nearly every single part of a project. As cliché as it may sound, I like to wear different hats—it keeps things fun! The goal for the near future is to hold the camera more while trying to innovate the way we tell stories, collaborate with people I think are cool, and make things that just might change some minds.