Through portraits of sex workers alongside images of manipulated and found environments, if I had hair, I’d want you to pull it looks into the world surrounding amateur & pro-amateur adult film, giving a view into x-rated performance outside of the highly-produced content often boosted online. As a performer, I leave out the clientele and audience wherever possible to portray the messy relationships between the many sectors within the industry. This work often includes other trans people and the everyday performances they build into their routines and others’ fantasy. It is shot on whatever media is available and safe within the moment, including 35mm film cameras, DSLRs, large-format view cameras, and cell phones.

I made these images in areas primarily around and across Texas, California, Las Vegas, and New York City, and they include friends, partners, or clients, lazing, posing, performing. The spectrum of economic tiers is often quickly and clumsily transcended or descended within the industry; this mobility is reflected in the class markers decided upon by those in the photographs, around their own appearances and that of the interior spaces surrounding them.

2021 - Ongoing