Global 50/50: This is Gender Exhibition

January 2026 | This Is Gender: Photography on Gender and Justice

In January 2026, a piece from my Captivity series will be included in This Is Gender, a global photography initiative and exhibition organized by Global Health 50/50. The project brings together images from around the world that examine how gender shapes our systems, opportunities, choices, and everyday lives.

My contribution will appear in conversation with photographs that explore gendered expectations in homes, workplaces, courtrooms, and streets. I’ve long been interested in the ways gender is enforced quietly — through rituals of care, domestic labor, and the unspoken rules of “how to be” in any given role. That is the terrain my work lives in, so it feels fitting to see it taken up within a context that speaks directly to law, justice, and power.

What I appreciate most about This Is Gender is its range: instead of offering one tidy answer to what gender looks like, it acknowledges the contradictions, variations, and tensions that shape lived experience. Being part of this exhibition is already pushing me to think about my own photographs not just as personal or local, but as small pieces of a much larger conversation about how bodies are seen, governed, and cared for.

The project will continue to evolve across different venues and formats, and I’m grateful that my work will join this growing archive of images asking, with quiet urgency, Who is seen? Who is protected? Who is left out of the frame?