Plight of the Pigeon is a collection of original photographs and poems that asks what remains after inheritance. After faith. After violence. After the versions of ourselves we were taught to become.

The pigeon is often treated as disposable, despite having spent centuries living beside us. I grew fixated on similar contradictions: in the lives we overlook, the stories we inherit, and the quiet forms of resistance that emerge when we refuse to stop looking.

Moving through innocuously bright neighborhoods, stale train cars, dated kitchens, vacant lots overgrown with wildflowers, front porches, humid funeral homes, and city streets, Plight of the Pigeon observes the ordinary landscapes where identity is inherited, tested, and remade. Blackness, masculinity, grief, desire, faith, labor, and tenderness surface not as subjects to be explained, but as conditions of everyday life. In many ways, this collection became a ritual of witnessing, an attempt to stay with what is difficult rather than rush toward certainty.