Rather than an escape from reality, my slow social documentary approach offers lines of flight that engage directly with felt encounters of contemporary life, articulated through portraiture, urban and landscape image-making. The materialities of my darkroom practice extend and intensify my experiences with subjects to invoke meaning-making. My process is a series of learnings from project-to-project, image-by-image to afford critical insights into everyday affective encounters that are otherwise unacknowledged.