About the Work A neighborhood basketball court in Brooklyn stands beside a memorial wall dedicated to firefighters who lost their lives on September 11. Every day, children return to this court to play, transforming a place of remembrance into part of everyday life. Rather than separating memory from the present, the photograph brings them into the same visual space, suggesting that the places we inhabit are shaped by both what happened there and what continues to happen every day.
Artist’s Process This work is created entirely in-camera using multiple exposure. Two separate photographs, taken at the same location, are exposed onto a single frame. No digital compositing, Photoshop, or generative AI is used. Every connection within the image exists because it was discovered through observation, timing, and the act of photographing. For me, multiple exposure is not a visual effect but a photographic philosophy. It allows independent moments to coexist within a single image, revealing relationships that often remain invisible when viewed separately.
Series Common Ground is an ongoing series exploring how public spaces carry both collective memory and everyday life. Each photograph is created at the same Brooklyn basketball court, where a memorial mural and the daily rhythm of the neighborhood exist side by side. Although this print is presented as an individual artwork, it forms part of a larger photographic project that continues to grow.
