Photography

A constant creative outlet for me throughout my life has been photography – especially documentary, travel, and narrative photography. Below is a selection of my portfolio in a mix of black/white and color, which I try to update regularly. If you are interested in printing any of my photographs, please feel free to email me. Once upon a time, I ran a Humans of New York-inspired photography and storytelling blog focused on the unhoused population in Berkeley, which can be found here at https://thestorieswewalkby.wordpress.com/. In AY2025-2026, I am very excited to merge my interests in photography and my research agenda in political science together as a Stanford Burt McMurtry Arts Initiative Fund grant winner for a project entitled “Mapping Memory: Civil Rights Legacies and Contemporary Contestations.”

Coney Island Mermaid Parade, June 2024.

Taste of Summer – Coney Island/Brighton Beach, June 2024. Best enjoyed listening to “Like The Old Days” by Barry Can’t Swim.

Montenegro by film, June 2023.

Paris, in black and white, April 2023.

Beirut, Lebanon, July 2023.

Summer solstice and all of its vibes in Dubrovnik, Croatia. June 2023.

The many cats of the Balkans, June 2023.

Sarajevo and Mostar, BiH, through their people. June 2023.

The walls and landscape of the city speak. Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, June 2023.

Assorted moments from Sarajevo, June 2023.

Women, Life, Freedom | Zan, Zendegi, Azadi. Times Square, NYC. September 2022.

Colorful walls and cars in Oaxaca, Mexico, July 2022.

Colorful, soulful people in Oaxaca, Mexico, July 2022.

Selection of snapshots from my last family trip to Iran, all taken in Tehran in June 2016.

Boy and birds on the beach. Mumbai, Maharashtra, India 2017.

Somewhere en route to Balrampur, Uttar Pradesh (2018) to conduct research interviews in microgrid-electrified villages. This tree, which local residents roped to fall over for wood, knocked over grid-power lines in the process of crashing down on the road.

Twelve apostles, with their heads in the clouds. Cape Town, South Africa 2015.

Two friends, one archway. New Delhi, India 2016.

Amalie face to face, on a train. Bergen to Oslo, Norway 2018.

Goat overlooks his palace, while a citizen wanders the kingdom grounds. Jaipur, Rajasthan 2018.

Colorful streets, colorful souls. Cartagena, Colombia 2017.

Walking, across continents. Magdalena, Colombia 2017 | Uttar Pradesh, India 2017.

Image, versus reality. L | Santorini, Greece (2019), where Instagram and influencer culture has saturated the island, paving the way for environmental damage and rampant corruption and bribery between building owners and government planning agencies. R | Rajasthan, India (2018), the country with the highest occurrences of selfie-caused deaths globally.

A woman brushes her teeth at sunrise with water from the lake in Fort Dauphin, where villagers bathe and wash their clothing. Water supply and sanitation continue to be serious challenges in Madagascar. Tolagnaro, Madagascar (2014). Shot on iPhone.

Madagascar, in black and white, of the beautiful people with whom I spent 7 weeks with as part of my capstone work in the Global Poverty and Practice program at UC Berkeley in Summer 2014. Taken throughout different parts of the Anosy region. All shot on iPhone.