The Throat of the River
2025-2026
I'm honored to be included in Charles River Composition, 48 photographers who participated in a year-long collaborative project conceived and led by Lisa McCarty. From the spring equinox of 2025 to the spring equinox of 2026, we explored the Charles River across its 308-mile journey, creating a collective portrait of a single river through diverse photographic perspectives.
During my mother’s final year, I photographed Hemlock Gorge and Echo Bridge along the Charles River. As I counted each breath by the movement of her throat, I began imagining this
stretch of river as a living body, a place of swallowing and constriction, of voice and echo. Influenced by nineteenth-century Pictorialist photographycontemporary to the shaping of this
landscape, these circular reflections of sky on water become meditations on motion, memory, breath, and passage.
Throat of the River is also an artist accordion book. See images below.
