Household Income Impact on Nutrition Access

Food Deserts, found within areas of low SES, lack fresh fruit, vegetables, and other healthy options, and instead have stores that stock highly processed foods (TBCG, 2019). In the U.S., Florida has the highest rates of food insecurity, obesity, and chronic diseases related to obesity, compared to national data (Wright et al., 2018). The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) reports that 23.5 million Americans live in food deserts, with 1.25 million of those people residing in Florida’s food deserts (Wright et al., 2018). A 2019 study, using 2015 data, found that forty of Jacksonville’s census tracts, out of 173, were Food Deserts (TBCG, 2019).

SBN, a toy photography podcast

I just had the wonderful opportunity to be interviewed by The SBN Podcast on my toy photography. Do give this episode a watch or listen.

My Favorite Photos of 2021

I sent in a photo this year to Lenscratch's Favorite Photos exhibition. I chose a recent image I'd made, which tends to be how my favorites go .

Current Working Toy Photographers Listing

Hi everyone, the list is now live! Thank you so much for your patience. I took a lot longer on this than planned. This is an announcement post, but the list and information below will be regularly updated at the permanent page here – https://toy.photography/about/current-working-toy-photographers-listing/ (linked in the sidebar to the left). I aim to add a... Continue Reading →

Photographing Miniature Worlds: The Art of Jennifer Nichole Wells

Still reveling in the fact that I was on WordPress discover back in 2016. "Viewing the fine art photography of Jennifer Nichole Wells is like falling down a rabbit hole into another dimension. The Jacksonville, Florida-based photographer constructs and photographs miniature dioramas of mysterious and whimsical worlds. Here, she discusses her creative process behind these... Continue Reading →

Making a Blurb Art Book

I received a couple questions as to how I produced the book, so I I hope this post will give those of you curious your answers, but I'd also like to use the opportunity to explain my thoughts and concept behind what I included, and what I did not.

Monochrome | Polychrome the book is here!

I published an art book of my Monochrome | Polychrome series! A book filled with miniature diorama photography, but it's so much more than that. A self portrait, a found identity, a tailored self. This book is the culmination of over a years worth of photos, planning, painting and soul searching, presented here as my... Continue Reading →

Monochrome | Polychrome – An Emotive take on Toy Photography

Tourmaline . Miniatures serve as iconographic objects. Not real people, places or things, but simplistic versions of such. This allows for abstracted views of reality. The perfect medium for creating visual representations of memories and emotions – abstractions of reality within themselves. Tourmaline . creates emotive imagery by transforming miniature tableaus through her camera lens.... Continue Reading →

Create a website or blog at WordPress.com

Up ↑