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 Spring 2026, I had the good fortune and opportunity 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.” You can view the grant report, along with a selection of photos, here. I am currently planning to put together a photo exhibit in 2027.
My next project is to create a book of my mother’s film photographs, captured in the years around the 1979 revolution in Iran.
The Freedom Riders’ Route through the American South, 2026
A small selection of photographs from Richmond, Virginia, Anniston, Alabama, and The King Center and National Civil Rights Museum in Atlanta, Georgia.
A small selection of stories of progress and backlash. Images in photos from the “Footsoldiers” Civil Rights Activist Committee headquarters in Birmingham, Alabama; National Voting Rights Museum by the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama (captured just two weeks before Louisiana v. Callais); the Legacy Museum and Peace, Justice Memorial Center, and Legacy Memorial Park in Montgomery, Alabama; landscaping where Robert E. Lee’s monument stood in Richmond, Virginia; a school previously named after Jefferson Davis now named after Barack Obama in Jackson, Mississippi; pristine Confederate soldiers’ tombstones in cemeteries in Greensboro, North Carolina and Greenville, South Carolina (8 minutes away from bulldozed and unmarked grave stones for formerly enslaved and freed Blacks); a protected and newly installed statue of Christopher Columbus in front of the White House in D.C.
New York, 2024
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.
Paris, the Balkans, and Lebanon, 2023
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.
New York, 2022
Women, Life, Freedom | Zan, Zendegi, Azadi. Times Square, NYC. September 2022.
Mexico, 2022
Colorful walls and cars in Oaxaca, Mexico, July 2022.
Colorful, soulful people in Oaxaca, Mexico, July 2022.
Iran, 2016
Selection of snapshots from my last family trip to Iran, all taken in Tehran in June 2016.
Travels & Fieldwork, 2015–2019
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.
Madagascar, 2014
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.
Madagascar, in color, through its beautiful people. Taken throughout different parts of the Anosy region in Summer 2014. Shot on iPhone.
Madagascar through its beautiful landscapes. Taken throughout different parts of the Anosy region in Summer 2014. Shot on iPhone.
