What does it mean to be seen and documented in public space without your consent? Down the Barrel (of a Lens) is a large-scale video installation composed of charged imagery drawn from the NYPD’s declassified surveillance film collections from 1960 to 1980. Each scene captures the moment when civilian subjects realize they are being filmed by a 16mm police camera and choose to stare back at their watcher. These haunting historical portraits raise questions about policing, acceptable intrusion, personal privacy, and quiet protest. Created as a Public Artist in Residence with New York City’s Department of Records, Down the Barrel (of a Lens) received First Prize in the National Portrait Gallery’s Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition

Exhibitions
Greater New York 2026, MoMA PS1, 2026
The Outwin 2025: American Portraiture Today, National Portrait Gallery, 2026
Lincoln Center, 2023
Brooklyn Army Terminal, 2023

Recognition
First Prize, Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition, National Portrait Gallery

Press
The New York Times
The Washington Post
Hyperallergic
Ocula