Editing, Curation, Production
I work with artists and storytellers of all kinds to sharpen creative content and share it with the world.
Clear-Cutting Sweden’s Indigenous Land
Maximilian Ihlenburg is a documentary photographer and filmmaker focusing on the human relationship to the natural environment. In winter 2026 he traveled to Sweden to photograph and report on deforestation that threatens the livelihoods of indigenous Sami communities who graze herds of reindeer in the country's forests.
Photo Editing
When Max, a colleague from the International Center of Photography, asked for feedback on his multimedia project before pitching the story, I offered to create an edit of his photographs to communicate the essence of his narrative. I laid out the story visually along with contextual details from his reporting and biography to tie everything together into a cohesive pitch.
Check out Max’s pitch “Clear-Cutting Sweden’s Indigenous Land” in Figma.
Salad
Salad is a multidisciplinary art series founded in Brooklyn by co-curators Sio Tepper and Stephen Cummings. Seeking to to bridge audiences across creative disciplines and communities, the series brings together artists working in music, photography, writing, dance, theater, and visual arts for an intimate evening of performances and installations.
Art Direction & Creative Commissioning
I design and install the visual exhibitions within our live events, creating installations that allow artwork to coexist with live performances, and working with participating artists to select and install visual art throughout the space.
I also oversee our printed program, commissioning and collaborating with designers, illustrators, photographers, and printers. I art direct the entire program, connecting featured artists to portrait photograhers, guiding cover artists through early sketches and revisions to ensure final imagery reflects the appropriate tone, designing content layouts, editing copy, and facilitating printing and hand-assembly of programs for distribution.
Multimedia Curation & Production
Alongside my co-curator, I identify and recruit artists working in a variety of disciplines to assemble a lineup whose work coalesces into a shared atmosphere. We engage directly with artists to offer support for refining their work and preparing for each show, and we produce our events by putting together a temporary performance and exhibition venue, coordinating logistics, and recruiting volunteers to stage the programs across multiple nights.
Media Pairing & Audience Engagement
Rather than presenting performances and visual art as separate experiences, we intentionally pair media throughout the program to deepen audience engagement. These combinations encourage audiences to explore unfamiliar forms of art and help create an environment where disparate creative communities meet and interact.
NYC Photo Stroll Zines
NYC Photo Stroll is a community-driven photography group producing independent zines to highlight the work from its members. For the second and third editions, I played a central role in shaping the publication: leading editorial production, building collaborative design systems, and stepping in to bring a stalled project through to completion.
Leading Editorial Production
As editor-in-chief for the second NYC Photo Stroll zine, I led a fully volunteer team through the entire production process from submission to print. Working with a deputy editor, I established a project timeline and coordinated submission intake, photo review and selection, design iteration, and print layout. In the final phase, my deputy editor and I guided the project through to production; standardizing typography and resolving gaps in layout, and aligning interior pages with a late-stage cover redesign to prepare the 100-page zine for the printer.
Establishing a Collaborative Design System
For the third edition of the zine, I initially joined in a more limited capacity as a contributor across editing, curation, and design. I participated in the photo selection process, contributed layout ideas, and helped establish a shared workflow in Figma to enable real-time collaboration across a large, multi-designer document, a significant improvement over the more traditional workflow of passing around Adobe InDesign files. I also recruited an illustrator and collage artist based in Portugal to collaborate with us on the zine’s cover design.
Resurrection and Completion
After I stepped away from zine #3 as planned to focus on other commitments, momentum on the project continued initially but eventually stalled roughly 80% through the design phase. Determined to fulfill the commitment to our contributors, I stepped back in to revive the effort and assumed a more active leadership role; rallying collaborators, reestablishing priorities, and pushing the publication toward completion.
Acting as the de facto final production editor, I coordinated sequencing refinement and improved typographic consistency to bring the zine to a near finished state. In the end I tackled production preparation on my own, ensuring proper image resolution, setting up bleeds, and exporting print-ready files from Figma.
Working with a low-budget printer introduced additional challenges, requiring sustained back-and-forth to resolve issues with bleed handling and output accuracy. Through iterative testing and troubleshooting, I ensured the final product met expectations and was finally delivered to the Photo Stroll community.
