HI! I’m Sophie (she/her)
I’m just a gal who’s deeply afraid of loss. Moments are fleeting, memories slip away with time, and once it's gone, you can't get it back. Photographs are our greatest means of preservation, our only way to make the ephemeral permanent. By taking a photograph, we are able to transcend the reality of time and capture a moment that would otherwise be gone forever, and the fact that I can do that, that I can be in charge of time for just a second, is the biggest comfort I could ask for.
To me, life is a big adventure home to yourself.
It’s all about getting to know who you really are underneath everything the world tells you to be. If there had been a wider range of queer art and media available to me a couple decades ago, I think I would’ve gotten to know myself a whole lot better a whole lot sooner. Some of the greatest struggles in my life have come from living in the dark about parts of myself I hadn’t met yet, so I strive to create work that allows people to know themselves better.
I'm a big believer that art is resistance.
Art has always been and will always be an instrument for social justice and societal change. As a queer person, I’m unendingly inspired by the art within and surrounding our community (so much so that I got my friends together to create a nonprofit about it. Queer art inspires change within us as well as in the world we live in– it shines light on new parts of us, and allows others to see us in new ways. Queer visibility is the driving force behind all the work I do for this reason, it allows us to better know ourselves and our community while at the same time showing those around us what it really means to be who we are. This circumstance is not queer-specific, it exists within and surrounding a multitude of communities, especially marginalized ones, but I personally experience it in a very gay way.
Stepping in front of my lens means you’ll know yourself better afterwards. It also means you might help someone else, someone who sees the images, to meet a new part of themselves. I can think of no greater honor.
Outside of photography, you can find me working at QAC to bring our nonprofit to life, hanging out with my nephew, doing lots of crafts, writing, and spending every spare second with my wife and our dog. Also, reading and watching queer stories. Always with the queer media around here.
