In 2014, I quit my job and took a one-way flight to Dar es Salaam.

For a year, I wandered across the African continent, encountering buildings and infrastructure projects being constructed by Chinese companies. It was a time of dramatic change - the creation of an abstract future yet to unfold.

Where these landscapes were once firm beneath my feet, they have now faded into memory. Photographs I’ve taken have become individual pieces, each with their own meaning: an unfinished concrete pier, a lone guard in a housing development, new machinery in a pristine forest - like reflections of civilization with the contradictions and complexities of an increasingly connected world laid bare.

I still think back to this time in my life—a time of uncertainty, youth, and boundless possibility.

2014

Africa and China: Actors, Methods, and Geopolitics in the Everyday, University of Padova, 2024

18th Venice Architecture Biennale - Hong Kong Pavilion, Venice, 2022

International Symposium of Visual Culture, CICA Museum, Seoul 2022

Africa-China Journalists Forum & Photo Exhibition, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 2018

UABB Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture Exhibition, Hong Kong, 2014

The Hong Kong Institute of Architects Biennale Foundation Grant, 18th Venice Biennale International Architecture Exhibition, 2023

Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts Research Grant, 2015

Exhibition Grant, UABB Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture, 2014

Eidlitz Travel Fellowship, Cornell University, 2014