who

I'm Zoe and...

growing up, I was called a packrat. My parents were sure I would become some sort of investigative journalist based on my love of documenting, collecting, and deciphering everything I came into contact with. These tendencies have stuck with me and (luckily) I have been able to translate my hoarding into a new style-- photography. Rather than stock up on ticket stubs and old rocks, I snap a photo to capture the moments that are in front of me. Each photograph brings back the memories I have been begging to never forget. Forgetting scares me. There is so much importance behind each day that we live and each experience that we have, and I have turned photography into a remedy for this fear of loss.

I truly hope that everyone can find something within my photographs that speaks to them and may send a message to their nostalgic side. To me, there is nothing more powerful than a photograph. Whether I’m flipping through baby photos and piecing together what has made me who I am or telling a story aided by the hundreds of photographs I’d taken along the way, I can always appreciate the frozen moments that I come across.

I think that my favorite thing about art is that each person who comes in contact with the work is viewing through their own eyes; eyes that are filled with their own experiences, understandings, emotional responses, all of it. One of my images that fills me with a deep breath of air may knock the wind out of someone else. The ability for the same photo to evolve into an entirely different creature is absolutely magical and as much as I wish my audience could see my work the way that I do (as an escape, therapy, a step away), I have to accept that they may not. Something about this is absolutely freeing…