Collected as a prototype for my first artist book, Wet is a series of 46 tintype portraits taken between new orleans and new york (with a few Texas and Florida trips) between 2014 and today. The theme of water runs a slow and steady thread through the layout - bodies of water by which we feel our own bodies, our own relaxation and divinity, bodies of water which turn to smoke in the process of long outdoor exposures. There is joy and fierceness and vulnerability in photographing my peers - and an uncompromising gaze they often bring back to the camera. The series is interspersed with the newest pieces - all shot in 2021 - exploring the explosion of our taught expectations of the american economic system, of rest and security being an attainable goal after a life time of labor. Drawing deeply from traditions of fashion and advertising I am inviting my colleagues to re-stage the symbols of wealth and time and relaxation used to seduce us into cycles of consumption and labor.