Through portraits and images of manipulated environments, if I had hair, I’d want you to pull it builds a visual inventory surrounding pro-amateur pornography and its messy intersections with in-person sex work. The work gives a view into adult performance outside the highly-produced content often immediately recalled as well as beyond the gritty spectacle many projects around the subject manifest. As part of these groups, I build both long and fleeting relationships with other workers and clients. The resulting images touch on the bizarre everyday performances we must build into regular routine to fulfill fantasies, both of clients and our own.

I create this work with whatever media is available and safe in the moment, including film formats from 35mm to 4x5, a variety of digital cameras, instant novelty cameras, and cell phones. Made in areas primarily around and across New York, California, Las Vegas, Florida, and Texas among other secondary places, this work includes friends, partners, and clients – undistinguished from each other – lazing, posing, or performing. Providers within this industry straddle multiple social worlds, ascending and descending the spectrum of economic tiers quickly and often clumsily. This rapid mobility is reflected in the class markers decided upon by those in the photographs, around their own appearances alongside the surrounding interiors.

2021 - Ongoing