2025 BMI-Kluge Fellow

The BMI-Kluge fellowship is a hybrid program supported by the Black Mountain Institute at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress, where I’ll continue independent research on relationships between landscape/agrarian photography, U.S. war propaganda, and Black articulations of freedom for my ongoing project, The Corpse at Stake was a Dream We Felt Inside Of. Following the conclusion of the fellowship, I’ll have the deep pleasure of collaborating with UNLV’s wider Vegas community to offer a public program in spring 2026.

The Corpse at Stake began as a commission by the Carnegie Museum of Art’s Hillman Photography Initiative for the catalog to their 2024 exhibition, Widening the Lens: Photography, Ecology, and the Contemporary Landscape.

A brief excerpt from The Corpse at Stake has since been republished by the Academy of American Poets.

You can hear me talk about the project in episode 5 of the Widening the Lens Podcast produced by the Carnegie Museum of Art, hosted by Venus Williams.