Shuttered
With my series, Shuttered, I've been documenting the decline of the International steel industry starting with Sparrow's Point for the past 15 years. The people are tied to the landscape and the landscape tied to steel for over a century. With the president's new tariffs, something Bush tried in 2002 to disastrous results, I've started to revisit steel towns and their residents and retirees. This series is unpublished and is an national project. In 2019, I received a Baltimore Office of Promotion and Arts travel grant to continue the project in Eastern Europe. Over the past year, I've travelled to the UK and the "Rust Belt" of America to work on the project. The Baltimore portion of the project is featured in a solo show running at the Baltimore Museum of Industry. My book, Shuttered, raised over $2000 for the Baltimore Museum of Industry when published this year.
"These are they who build thy houses, weave thy raiment, win thy wheat, smooth the rugged, fill the barren, turn bitter to sweet. All for thee this day? and ever. What reward for them is meet?"-Morris, March of the Workers.