Eye for Detail

I dressed like this during my better days in college, when I went to business school in New England and studied abroad for a year in central London.

Then senior year happened and my thesis had me in sweats. Even then, layering menswear-inspired athleisure and business casual got me through the grind.

It’s been a long time since a collection has spoken to me like this.

Belstaff Pre-Fall 2016

Upper: Look 4

Right: Look 5

Left: Look 1

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“Man and Woman, Save Evening Walk” (digital photo, May 2015).

“Man and Woman, Save Evening Walk” was taken in Save, Rwanda on May 28th, 2015 during the Babson College Center for Women’s Entrepreneurial Leadership Rwanda Initiative 2015. During the first two weeks of the Rwanda Initiative, my teammates and I stayed in Save, a rural town in the Southern Province of Rwanda. The Southern Province is considered the poorest province out of the five provinces of Rwanda, a country that itself is one of the most undeveloped nations in the world. The five of us were housed in a Catholic convent and we took daily unescorted walks outside of the compound. I bought my camera and zoom lens with me on one early evening hike away from the main roads. While switching lenses, a crowd of locals gathered to observe the foreigners. One of my teammates entertained the children in the crowd with the selfie camera on her phone. With the majority of the onlookers distracted, I captured two passersby looking back at us. This scene is striking because of the expressions on the man’s and woman’s faces. While the man’s eyes reveal a reserved curiosity that borders on suspicion, the barefoot woman beams for my camera. For a brief moment during the taking of this photo, mutual acknowledgment was made between the native and the tourist.

I lingered round them, under that benign sky; watched the moths fluttering among the heath and hare-bells; listened to the soft wind breathing through the grass; and wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth. - Emily Brontë, “Wuthering Heights” (1847)

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“Ghost” (darkroom chemicals and effects on Ilford Black and White Multigrade IV Photo Paper, May 2015).

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"Octopus" (darkroom chemicals and effects on Ilford Black and White Multigrade IV Photo Paper, May 2015).