After Maxine | PhMuseum

“The life of the dead is placed in the memories of the living.” – Cicero

In the sequence entitled After Maxine, I create tales about household and the panorama from a queer, female-bodied perspective. I discover each private and ecological points by way of pictures, destabilizing the historically masculine framework of panorama photographic photos. I make use of the visible language of archiving and pure historical past to query degenerative relationships with the land, weaving an intimate story about household and group trauma. This fabricated narrative reveals hidden histories, each actual and imagined, as a method of inspecting each my very own id and queer life within the South.

If honored with the PhMuseum 2026 Women Photographers Grant, I’ll increase the attain of this challenge by way of the creation of a photograph guide. I completed a bookmaking certificates on the San Francisco Center for the Book in 2024, and have since taken many extra lessons there. I’m scheduled to make a guide dummy at one other bookmaking residency in April of 2027, so this award would assist me on the good second to take this work to the following stage. I’ll use the supporting funds to buy an Epson SureColor P9570 massive format printer and paper. This will permit me to print bigger, and at a lot decrease prices than these I at present face within the Bay Area of California. Because the guide will likely be a home made artist’s picture guide, having the ability to do plenty of the printing alone will considerably cut back the expense for challenge completion. The awarded funds will permit me the entry I must proceed my skilled follow a the best stage.

The different provided prizes are equally spectacular, and I will likely be thrilled for the popularity and assist. I’ve eagerly utilized for this grant practically yearly since its inception. I consider within the high quality of this work, and that queer tales from rural areas in America should be shared with the world. I recognize the judges’ consideration and time.