Milk and Sun

Made during the first years of parenthood, Milk and Sun confronts the disorienting expansion of the world that accompanies a new child. The images are flooded with light—overexposed, soft, unstable—mirroring the altered perception of early parenthood. Everything feels luminous. Everything feels exposed.
The series holds two realities at once. The arrival of a child renders the world immediate and vivid in a new way. Ordinary afternoons become charged. Sunlight becomes excessive. Small gestures carry disproportionate weight. At the same time, awareness sharpens. The world is no longer abstract. Its dangers are no longer theoretical. Events once distant now register as threats that cannot be controlled.
The photographs lean into that instability. Focus slips. Highlights blow out. Figures dissolve into glare. The aesthetic is not nostalgic; it is sensory. It reflects a consciousness stretched between wonder and vigilance.
Milk and Sun documents the early realization that parenthood does not simply add joy—it multiplies exposure. The world becomes brighter, and in becoming brighter, it becomes harder to look at directly.