Digital Junk Drawer
2024 - ongoing
Digital Junk Drawer is an ongoing photographic series created using mid-2000s consumer digital cameras. These aging, “junkier” technologies allow for an immediate and unpolished capture of everyday life, prioritizing presence and realism over refinement.
The work centers on moments of absurdity and quiet humor, both still and animated, such as a teddy bear duct-taped to a streetlight at twilight or the local punk figure Pink Thing revealing the inside of their mouth. These cameras are often my primary tools for documenting Buffalo’s nightlife, allowing me to work with greater stealth and immediacy than more advanced equipment may allow.
As paraphrased from my collaborator and digicam enthusiast Silas Rubeck, the harsh flashes of these cameras crystallize moments. I share this sentiment, these once obsolete tools, now returning to cultural relevance, possess a unique ability to suspend time and evoke a distinctly digital nostalgia.
Digital Junk Drawer will be presented as a solo exhibition in the summer of 2026 at the Buffalo Institute of Contemporary Arts Project Space.
