Glendalis, The Life and World of a Youngest Daughter

This work traces the life of a youngest daughter in a family on the Lower East Side in the pre-gentrified 90’s. Shot exclusively in the fields, buildings and apartments of that neighborhood.

This analog project traces the life of a youngest daughter in a family on the Lower East Side. In the pre-gentrified 90’s. Shot exclusively in the fields, buildings and apartments of that neighborhood, the family occupied a multigenerational tenement, a family system which echoes my own. I grew up the same way. Multiple generations lived on the same block, neighborhood or house, with everyone all on top of each other. I was a city kid — independent from a young age just like the daughters in these pictures. Shooting this work felt real and authentic, a call back to who I was as a city kid in New Haven, one of the most economically stratified cities in America. Blind Mag referred to me as an “enfant sauvage”-wild child in English. However, even though I constructed a beatific family narrative in my pictures, the 90’s were not beatific at all. Crime, incarceration, gangs and death surrounded these neighborhoods, informed by my own upbringing.