Based in New York City, I’m a multidisciplinary artist with a distinct focus on avant-garde expression. Under my photographic moniker, MyOwnOrlando, I aim to curate worlds where hidden desire, temptation, and controversy become the workings of life. I’m interested in the conversation between liminally complex environments, fashion, and narration.

 

Composition frames the core of my practice. Whether documenting ghost towns across the United States or crafting narrative fashion projects, I approach each image as a constructed world. Sometimes that world is minimal: a dilapidated barn against a stretching plain. Other times it’s an orchestrated arrangement of bodies, objects, and shadows. I look for structure in what's both defined and scattered - textures in contrast, organic forms, and instinctual cues that shout “shoot!”

 

Growing up queer in the Midwest, I learned early the barriers of society and rules of desire. The unspoken, the unallowed, the ones that fall outside social normality. This may take form as a post-apocalyptic woman traversing an abandoned office, or an analog self-portrait wearing black eye contacts and a ghillie mask. My work constantly asks how my personal turmoil reflects the broader collective condition.

 

Self-portraiture remains essential in my photography, as every image I make carries a part of me. It is my history, my impulses, my questions. A place where desire doesn’t need permission, where tension becomes its own language, and where viewers are invited to meet themselves within the shadows and constructions I leave behind.